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...Lest We Forget...
...Lest we forget, let us not pretty up these sites. Let their preservation be scrupulous in every detail. Let their numbers and distribution be sufficient so every German-with Allied encouragement, if necessary-be acquainted with them with Teutonic thoroughness. Let them be accessible to people of all countries as one of the distinguishing monuments of our time...
...objected strenuously: "the right of peoples everywhere 'to know' is at stake." Roy Howard, boss of the rival U.P., wired President Truman, urging that the suspension be withdrawn, lest the A.P. be "condemned unjustly," as he had been "pilloried personally" for jumping...
...awful were the acts of Naziism in its death throes that General Eisenhower summoned U.S. Congressmen and editors to see them with their own eyes, lest they forget...
...renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good deed...