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...ardent aim of the millions of heroic common people in Britain, first to defend themselves against the dictators and finally to destroy them, arises basically from the deep-held desire to insure for their masses and for their fellow men in other lands a much larger measure of economic freedom and security than the conventional capitalistic and imperialistic system has previously provided...
Verdun, the eighth and climactic volume of Jules Romains' vast Men of Good Will (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), was pure holocaust on the heroic scale. It was his attempt to show a nation, a continent, an age in the paroxysm of war. It was the heaviest piece of orchestration Romains' gigantic project had yet demanded...
Brazilian hearts beat faster last week at the news that Private Oscar Corrêa dos Santos had been awarded 17 years' back pay. For Oscar Corrêa dos Santos, as every patriotic Brazilian knows, is one of two remaining survivors of the heroic Dezoito do Forte (Eighteen of the Fort...
...France made a national shrine of that spot in the Forest of Compiègne. Trees were felled, the clearing carpeted with soft grass. A monument was erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished by the Free Peoples Which...
...service in Zululand he won the name of Impeesa (The Wolf that Never Sleeps) from the awed natives, moved on to Ashanti and Matabeleland. By the time of the Boer War he was a colonel in command of Mafeking, where he held off the Boers with a heroic 217-day defense. In 1907, aged 50, big-game hunter, author of Aids to Scouting, an Empire hero, he was back in England as Inspector-General of Cavalry...