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Last week U.S. heavy bombers based in Britain attacked one German city in seven days. R.A.F. heavy bombers based in Britain attacked four German cities in seven nights. The Luftwaffe lightly raided London seven nights in a row. For Allied airmen in western Europe this pattern of events had some important and bitter meanings...
...came out of the clouds last week. For months the stories of the U.S. Eighth Air Force raids on Germany had followed a palatable pattern-German factories demolished, U.S. losses relatively light, the Luftwaffe frantically impotent. Suddenly, the cost of victory loomed large...
...another problem the world will be highly sensitive: the Chinese treatment of the minority Moslem race, alien in language, religion and culture. Are the Turks, who form 60% of the population, to be steamrollered into the Chinese pattern or inundated and absorbed by tidal waves of Chinese immigration? Or will China try to preserve the minority languages, schools and courts and let the natives participate in their own Government ? Upon her record in Turkestan, China's claim for trusteeship for other retarded racial groups in Asia may stand or fall...
...Russians are also eager to discuss the AMG (Allied Military Government in Occupied Territory), in which they see a pattern for the future. They dislike its present composition, have sharply attacked its work. Said Moscow's War and the Working Class: "[AMG] is generally developing from foundations that have nothing in common with the principles of democracy...
Inscrutable Pattern. Kipling, says Eliot, "is one of the most inscrutable of authors." But there is a pattern in his verse, "a unity of a very complicated kind." For the tracing of it, his verse and his prose must be studied together. So must his biography. An Englishman born in India, Kipling was neither Englishman nor Indian, yet "he might almost be called the first citizen of India." As such, he saw England and the world as might "a visitor from another planet." But though he was one of the least subjective of poets, Kipling was by no means detached...