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...demand for indiscriminate expulsion of first and second generation Japanese in California did not come from the masses of the people. Even when Californians were still stunned by the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor, there was great sympathy for the Isei and Nisei [alien and citizen Japs] placed in this tragic position through no fault of their own. Most Californians were content to let the FBI weed out the undesirables...
...This sudden arrival of the vernal season, so far in advance of its usual late date, caught the boat house partially unprepared, and there were no launches ready when Bolles sent his two shells out on the chilly water. The eights, stroked by Dave Noyes and Bryce Seligman, restricted themselves to working out in the three-eighths mile space between Newell and the Cambridge Boat Club...
...fall and the inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland (see p. 16). But it had happened dizzily fast. Seeing it coming and feeling the crunch of its presence were two different things. Sweat poured from the national pores; and beneath the sweat there was a sudden profound shift in the nation's war thinking, a lurching adjustment to the fact that the waking nightmare was no dream...
...isolated disasters were so absorbing, one by one, that it was very easy to miss their cataclysmic total: The Axis, in one sudden week, emerged as a great combination of sea power...
...there is no other you. Your body belongs to you: it is not you. . . . The flames of the house, of the diving plane strip away the flesh; but they strip away the worship of the flesh too. Man ceases to be concerned with himself: he recognizes of a sudden what he forms part of. If he should die, he would not be cutting himself off from his kind, but making himself one with them. He would not be losing himself, but finding himself...