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Three thousand years of glorious victory...
...cold north wind was lashing under a bleak sky. Up a steep ravine we toiled again, and plunged through a glorious mountain field, sprinkled with red flowers, silvery brooks and green pine woods, with the wind roaring before us like a boisterous symphony. Above the woods, 4,000 feet up, I finally found the staff of the 8th Corps and Major Randolph Churchill...
...incredible that a people with such profound Christian faith, with its glorious history, with the oldest parliamentary tradition of the Continent, would join in a hymn of hatred and willingly submit to the blood lust and brigandage of tyranny. No man can love God and hate his brother. No one who hates his brother can be a faithful follower of the gentle Christ...
...bored running [the] colossal war plant [which] the University of Chicago now is. ... So ... he decided to stage a one-man commando raid on the unguarded shrine of Let-Well-Enough-Alone. ... I believe that Mr. Hutchins is a menace to all the sacred precepts that have produced the glorious civilization we are now enjoying...
...described the U.S. landing at Hollandia: "A little native boy came running into our camp on that glorious morning and told us that a great grey ship with many airplanes was off the shore. We didn't dare hope, but we thought it might be the Americans. The Japs told us the ship was probably theirs, bringing in new planes and reinforcements. But we could see the Japs were worried. Later we heard that 50,000 Americans and many ships had arrived. We could see the Japs were panicky...