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...events by retreating to a speciously "realistic" ivory tower. Beguiled by the intellectual glibness of those elders who found war to be the product of profiteering, the undergraduate concluded that all war was meaningless, that international humanitarianism was only a term for national naivete, and that only in the "glorious isolation of the American eagle" lay the hope of the United States for peace. Accordingly, adolescents led peace strikes, the Oxford Union refused to die for king and country, and a not too far-sighted Crimson professed to have perceived the absurdity of internationalism...
...British Empire, which stood as the lonely and glorious bulwark of freedom in the critical days of 1940 and which has set the world the example of a community of different peoples held together by a system of unparalleled flexibility and by an uninterrupted growth of liberty and respect for law, emerges from the trial in new strength. And events have proven that the ruthless process of the revolution has released the creative abilities of the Soviet masses and awakened them from age-old lethargy to unexpected vigor. The United States will be strong, yet not strong enough to tell...
...will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then shall the nation be so glorious that her praise, instead of exploding from within, from loud civic mouths, shall come to her from without, as all worthy praise must, from the alliances she has fostered, and from the populations she has saved...
...lost a carrier to submarine attack: in Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley's command in the South Pacific the Wasp was nailed by a Japanese submarine off the Solomons. To submarines or gunfire the Royal Navy has lost no less than four (Courageous, Glorious, Ark Royal, Eagle). Naming none of these names, Flyer Collett wrote...
Britain's loss of the Glorious by gunfire (in battle with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) seemed also the result of bad handling, under the Collett doctrine. He found that only "extremely bad weather" or a lucky break could enable a battleship or cruiser to close with a carrier...