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...less outlandish and surprising than if Finn MacCool, his long-legged self, had turned around in the middle of his runnin' lep from the Giant's Causeway and said: "The Sassenach are a fine, fair-minded and glorious people...
...near Sao Paulo, Brazil, a bitter man sat down and wrote an angry letter to Czechoslovakia's finance minister. Wrote Jan A. Bata (rhymes with got ya), who once controlled Bata Inc. of Zlin, one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers: "What has become of the glorious Czechoslovak enterprise in ten months of national management? . . . What we gathered in 52 . . . years is on the precipice of bankruptcy...
...evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
Nevertheless, millions of patriotic Frenchmen refuse to deny the patriotism of French Communists because of the Reds' really glorious record in the Resistance (once Russia was in the war). Leaders of anti-Communist parties have until very recently softened their attacks on Red leaders because they remember the years of danger shared...
Below the hill of Chartres, with its glorious Gothic tribute to the power of God, sprawls a drab and dirty token of modern man-the hutments and barbed wire of Prisoner of War Camp 501. Outwardly antithetical, camp and cathedral are both repositories of the same faith. Of the 5,000 German soldiers behind the wire, 450 are studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood under a prisoner-faculty of seven...