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Readiness to spread and act upon rumor and exaggeration is a fault to which Chinese and U.S. soldiers are especially prone. The Chinese like to indulge "the vicious habit" of self-dramatization, and flattery of their superiors. But, "of the many exaggerated stories I have heard in seven years . . . none can surpass those told by American pilots and infantrymen...
...Dieppe was paid for in full. So were the unhappiest years that any fighting men could have-years in which Canadian soldiers had chafed almost in vain for action. Almost in vain but not quite, for they had seen action, each time under circumstances which, through no fault of their own, were painful or disastrous...
...Japs in caves. When it began to look as if what had been gained might be lost, Fourth Marine Division troops even moved in front of a sector of the 27th's line to save it. From the Marine point of view, General Ralph Smith's chief fault was that he had long ago failed to get tough enough to remove incompetent subordinate officers...
...this is highly important; for the literal interpretation of these same texts did much to befog our minds and emasculate our policy in the years between the wars when our main fault was that we tried Christianity too hard; and there is grave danger that we may do it again...
According to Arthur Douropulos '31, secretary of the group, who teaches all courses, progress towards better use of English has been too slow and this has been largely the fault of the country's secondary schools. Even at Harvard the Committee finds many Freshmen who are not firmly grounded in spelling, punctuation, and grammar...