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...History within a few months will probably be in a position to state whether the sacrifice of hecatombs of Russian lives . . . was or was not the right thing to do from a military viewpoint...
...this book could be made into a play simply by turning the descriptions into stage directions and filling out the dialogue. The writing is spare, bold, sometimes tensely humorous. What makes it great propaganda, over & above the professional skill with which it is written, is a certainty of viewpoint that does not admit the possibility of final military defeat because it does not admit the possibility of moral defeat. This is the viewpoint of victory...
Conquest. Victory was not the viewpoint of "the town" on the Sunday when the invaders arrived. The first mood was confusion. The postman and policeman had gone fishing in a boat owned by Mr. Corell, "the popular storekeeper." They were several miles at sea "when they saw the small, dark transport, loaded with soldiers, go quietly past them." Conscious of their civic duties, the postman and policeman turned back in time to be thrown into the local jail. "The local troops, all twelve of them, had been away. ..." Mr. Corell, the popular storekeeper, had donated a lunch, targets, cartridges...
From the national viewpoint, the important question is not whether $500,000,000 is a lot of money, but what the railroads do with it. So far, they have not dribbled it away. In the last two years long-parched stockholders got $360,000,000-about 50% of the 1940-41 net. In the same two years the roads repaid $117,529,000 to PWA and RFC, thus cutting their Government debts to $455,244,000, less than half their total original borrowings. Moreover, many a railroad learned well the No. 1 lesson of the '30s: that fixed charges...
...where it is going and goes there with clarity and dispatch." If these good gentlemen can be at variance to such a degree, it surely points up the moral that both dramatic and movie criticism today need a lot of redefinition, some standards of excellence and a more objective viewpoint...