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...when the Republican Party will give their sadly abused adherents the man they want? We know that it was public demand that forced them to nominate him last time, and that he gave the best political personality of our time a run for his money. Unfortunately, from a political viewpoint, he is an honest man. But isn't it possible, that even an honest man might be elected by an enlightened public...
...settled now, because: 1) "the world will no longer feel vitally concerned about what happens in India after the war"; 2) the Axis is pouring out propaganda to the Indians and, though the great majority of them are anti-Axis, they listen "to get other than a British viewpoint on the war"; 3) "the longer the problem remains unsolved, the more the Indians will turn to extremists for a violent solution-on the basis that the moderates have failed...
...Agedabia, I missed the day we moved into El Agheila. . . . But, lying in that tent, surrounded by men who had been blown up by mines, I discovered that no matter how badly a man's body may be hurt his spirit can remain undamaged. You get a new viewpoint of the war when you lie on your back and look at it. And my girl didn't like the major anyway...
...frank experiment, and it is correct to say that subsequent issues have been a series of them. Some of the experiments have succeeded; a few have failed. Throughout its existence, however, the Guardian has always been something new under the sun. It has managed to present an undergraduate viewpoint without degenerating into a Junior "Annals of the American Academy," and through it all has avoided the intellectual arthritis which follows the adoption of any sectarian dogma. There will be an even better place for such a journal when the problems of peace and readjustment are the issues...
Skirmishes for Posterity. General Fuller's definition of a decisive battle may not suit everyone and some of his conclusions may be open to argument, but his viewpoint on U.S. military history is stimulating for anyone whose knowledge of it has been imbibed from American schoolbooks. His decisive battles are almost never last battles. Often victory is not unveiled to public view by them. They are often relatively small...