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...proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...
...planes over Pearl Harbor, scores of transports off Malaya, 200,000 men thrown at Luzon, oil burned up in submarine raids off California, shells pumped onto Guam, Wake and Midway, artillery squandered at Hong Kong, shrapnel consumed in a new Chinese offensive, cruisers risked in an attack on Sarawak, precious bombs dropped on Sumatra and Burma-a total bet of nearly all Japan's power. At best Japan stood to lose far more than she could replace soon; at worst, everything...
...group or clique is losing this war, it's the women, poor dears. Here they are, losing all their most precious possessions, the men, to this horrid, stupid old war. Then when the war is over it looks as though there'll be so many more of their sex left than the other that the United States will have to go over to polygamy. Imagine having to share Cary Grant with another cat! My dear, it's horrendous...
...Christmas would be far from gemütlich. French factories, even those working on German war orders, got an unwelcome holiday vacation of two weeks in the form of a shutdown to save coal. In Hungary the food situation was so acute that hunters were permitted to use precious gasoline driving to the woods in taxis. The Reich is so short of doctors that it is advertising for more physicians in the occupied countries. The overworked doctors in Germany itself have been warned not to prescribe iodine, aspirin or diets with extra food. For the last two Christmases Germans have...
...imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow, he couldn't quite work up the nerve. His muscles seemed paralyzed. Life, even in war, is good fun. He didn't worship the State as an entity more precious than himself. He admired the President, but he had no illusions about his divine ancestry. Vag wasn't even sure that he believed in a God, and if he did he knew it was a God who had some idea of the value of each individual life. Vag's religion...