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...Premier said he was not too worried about acquiring strong Parliamentary backing. "Unity will come about," promised Paul Reynaud. "We don't want to attain it by adroit maneuvers but by results of our action. We are going to the test with our heads high, not prepared to submit but to master-with the souls of warriors and with the souls of victory...
...subject to seizure. Presently it was announced that British officials at Hong Kong had turned both Red freighters over to their allies, the French, who were taking them to a port in Indo-China for further scrutiny. Report was that the officers & crew of the Selenga, refusing to submit, were placed under arrest. It seemed a cinch that neither Russia nor Germany would soon receive those particular tons of copper, tin, antimony, wolframite, molybdenite...
...Besides the body there is the mind. There are some to whom the idea of harboring a louse is so repellent as to unhinge the mind. . . . [Louse] control is perhaps the worst of all; for it depends upon inspections which ... are so undignified that no man would willingly submit to them, nor would any in his normal mind conduct them excepting as a duty...
...bashi-bazouks. A mere 2,500,000 Finns cannot naturally dream of a successful revolt, but we, all of us Russian citizens, must think of the dishonor that burdens us. We are still such slaves ourselves that we can be employed to reduce other nations to slavery. We still submit to a Government that crushes us with the cruelty of the hangman and that uses Russian soldiers to destroy the liberty of others...
...thinking is also the art of believing, because no human being at the present stage of civilization could safely call all his individual and social beliefs into question again or submit them to his conscience...