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...little bit?" cried Texas' Hatton Sumners. What he bragged about was that U. S. lynchings dropped from 231 in 1892 to 130 in 1901, to 54 in 1916, to 20 in 1935, to six in 1938, last year to three* (one in Mississippi, two in Florida, none for rape). These descending figures seemed to point the moral that if Congress lets right-thinking Southern whites alone, they can work their dark problem down to zero...
...today no Allied general has had a chance. Socially the new War Secretary is somewhat overshadowed by his clever and beauteous wife. Lady Maureen Stanley, daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry who used to be perhaps the chief British exponent of appeasing Germany but swung violently around after the rape of Bohemia last spring...
After Ethiopia and Spain, after Munich and the rape of Czecho-Slovakia, after the final diplomatic defeat of letting Russia sign with Germany instead of the Allies-British diplomacy came to World War II with a minus score. But since war began British diplomacy has a wholly different record...
...Rape of Chin Valley. "The physical impact [was] tremendous. Village after village completely destroyed. Houses shattered and burned, wells fouled, bridges destroyed, roads torn up. Houses were burned by the soldiery both out of boredom and deviltry, and because they were cold and needed fire and warmth...
...burning desire to bring peace on earth, good will to men. Soviet Russia, these disillusioned folk know now, is as lustful and cruel as her neighbors. Like her neighbors, she must look first of all to her own security and power. Nations have always committed murder and rape while quoting the Bible or the Declaration of Independence. But while France and England can fight to save their empires and still succeed in selling the idea that they are battling for "the oppressed peoples of the world," Russia's clumsy justifications for invading Finland are salt in an open wound...