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...known to every alienist he passed from loquacious vanity, boasting and shouting, to uncontrolled lunacy. ... I do not know when he became certifiable. . . . Our real enemies, the supporters of the long tradition of Vansittart's unanswerable Black Record, are at one with the viler elements of our own Anglo-Saxon ruling classes, in wanting him to come to an end, before the liberating resentment and enlightenment, that follow the stresses of every great war, lead to actual world revolution. . . . He will never commit suicide-he hasn't the guts and our proper treatment...
...Nation's Talk. In underground shops and shelters, in shattered homes and streets, the Germans' first topic of talk was the bombings. A trailing second place went to what everyone called "the imminent Anglo-Saxon invasion." A lagging third was the once all-absorbing Russian front...
Jolting take-offs and stops scrambled Britons with Britons, Britons with Americans. Passengers clung each to each, forgot the chill reserve common to Anglo-Saxon bus riders the world over...
...talk among Navy men, no longer preoccupied with rosy dreams of inherent Anglo-Saxon superiority, was that the war in the Pacific would be fought to a finish much faster than anyone had thought possible a year...
Planned Democracy. "Some critics may feel that it is inconsistent if we should strive to democratize our politics and at the same time introduce planned economy. Such an argument is not entirely groundless. . . . But our democracy will not be an exact reproduction of Anglo-Saxon types. . . . Similarly ... we may take only what is suitable from the Soviet system...