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...Truth," says the author, "is the pedestaled goddess of the Anglo-Saxon world, yet the treatment she receives often makes her look like a slut." He agrees that the charge of hypocrisy commonly leveled against the Englishman is true. Perpetually riven "by the struggle between necessity and conscience," Englishmen can hardly be expected to be otherwise. But the main point, says Baldwin, is that the English conscience is always consulted...
...Spiritual Home. The result is that in "Anglo-Saxon society a man can attain permanent eminence only [by] showing real or ostensible moral stature." In turn, that fact has led to steady progress toward "the golden mean which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry...
...secretly through her college years at St. Louis' Washington University, got 21 rejection slips from one magazine. (When she became editor of her college paper she printed all 21 rejected stories.) In 1910, 20-year-old, buxom, self-confident Fannie left for Manhattan to do graduate work in Anglo-Saxon at Columbia University...
Their Own Way. Colonel Cutler met Russians who had earned eight wound stripes since the war began. "I am not sure that the Anglo-Saxon nervous system could go into trenches eight times and be wounded in that period. But that's the way to win war, and that's the way the Russians like...
...heave a staggering number of men across the Reich at Anglo-U.S. bridgeheads wherever they might appear in the West. The Red Army's Red Star was still loudly asserting that no second front had come into being. The new outlet for official unofficial Russian views, War and the Working Class, was politely calling departed U.S. Ambassador William Standley a spreader of statements (about publicity for Lend-Lease) "which did not correspond to the truth" and labeling AMG as too closely concerned with "security for Anglo-Saxon banking, industrial and trade circles." In London a Free Germany Movement...