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...moviegoer is left with the unavoidable conclusion that the war is, in reality, over ten years old--that the conditions that existed after 1931 and prior to the actual outbreak of war are impossible in the peaceful modus vivendi. And a recognition of that, the Office of War Information feels, is insurance against a repetition of the selfsame conditions, and the Munichs and defeats that must follow...
...dawn we arrive at a half-finished building [all nonmilitary construction in Russia stopped at war's outbreak] in which a brigade staff is headquartered. The street bordering it on the north along the German lines has been smashed by mortar fire. At one intersection, where I remember the policeman who used to direct traffic, a tommy-gunner now stands, showing the passing soldiers a dip in the road invisible to the Germans...
Since reading a few weeks ago in your columns letters from technically trained men in the armed forces who have not been able to use their training in the winning of the war, I have looked into this whole situation very thoroughly. At the outbreak of the First World War, the British allowed their technically trained men to be sent off to the front practically to a man. Almost immediately they discovered their mistake and had to begin dragging them back for the production army without which any fighting army is completely helpless...
...When Prime Minister Smuts came into office with the outbreak of war in 1939, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister for 15 years, gathered a mixed anti-war opposition. Dr. Malan shortly ousted Hertzog from the Party leadership, and the veteran Germanophile politician retired to his Wilge River farm near Pretoria...
...members, all Quakers or representatives of other churches, are longtime pacifists who had formed convictions before the outbreak of the present conflict that they would have nothing to do with any future...