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...preservation of this band and its work is equivalent to the preservation of China. Upon the Chinese intellectual rests the fate of his nation in the struggle with the Rising Sun, Only he is in contact with the current of scientific development which flows in the Occident. Only he is capable of building a backbone for national resistance-a backbone designed to meet modern specifications. And only he is able to govern, to fill the administrative offices of the Nationalist Government...
...astonishment. It also suggests the reason why Hay, like every other man who knew Lincoln intimately, spent the rest of his life collecting material about him. "What a man it is!" Hay exclaims. "Occupied all day with matters of vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with his own fame & future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie & good fellowship that he gets out of bed & perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that we may share with...
...Personal conviction is not enough . . . only keen and constant vigilance, determination and readiness for sacrifice of each and all of us can render us secure against such a fate as that which we see with out eyes spreading over Europe," Einstein wired...
...Germany and Fascist Italy, said Adolf Hitler, are strong enough to resist any coalition against them. In a direct slap at France he added that "If war is waged against Italy for any reason whatever it will see Germany and Italy side by side. . . . Nazi Germany knows what her fate would be if the international powers succeeded in defeating Italy. . . . Those who belittle the Italian Army were refuted by the Ethiopian campaign...
...Mednikoff is the son of a peasant. She is 48, he is 32; she a doctor, he a commercial artist. She has spent some time bushwhacking in New Zealand; he has spent much of his brushwielding in London. Both have bright eyes, great energy, and perfectly terrific subconscious minds. Fate threw them together at a party five years ago, and they have been working together ever since on the Cornwall coast. Last week the fruit of those years-65 of the goofiest paintings London has ever seen-were put on show in the white-walled Guggenheim Jeune Galleries...