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...leftist (he was wounded in the Spanish Civil War), he nonetheless includes all leftist creeds among "the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls." A vigorous anti-imperialist (as a youth, he served in the Burma police), he has the courage to affirm that an imperialist like Rudyard Kipling is likely to speak more sanely about imperial affairs than are his liberal critics. Finally, while remaining a skeptical iconoclast, Orwell can insist that "high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those...
...Affirm that "it will under no circumstances be the first to use atomic weapons in any possible future...
...issue was not between sects, but between religion v. atheism. They succeeded with Mrs. McCollum's father, Arthur G. Cromwell, who is president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished in three upstate New York towns.) Mr. Cromwell would only "affirm" to tell the truth, instead of swearing by God. Then he testified to his beliefs that the story of Adam and Eve is fictitious, the Flood a scientific impossibility and the Resurrection a physical impossibility. He declared: "I am proud to say that I am [an atheist...
...group of clergymen meeting last week in Chicago said: "In considering the treatment of a defeated Germany, we as religious leaders first affirm our confident hope that the victorious Allies will be guided by justice rather than by vengeance. We believe that a re-educated German people can in time become a worthy member of the family of mankind...
...Fairy Tale. Elizabeth was only a few minutes old when a black-coated, stripe-trousered symbol of British officialdom thrust itself upon her. On April 21, 1926, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks peered anxiously into her red, squally face, went away to affirm that she had been born. Her life, not exactly woeful, has been like that ever since...