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...legal difficulties were no less imposing. The Allies had to make the law for the trials; there were few precedents. The Anglo-Saxon jurists were used to jury trials of men presumed innocent until proved guilty. The French had legal customs based in part on the sterner Roman code. The Russians were used to even sterner totalitarian ways...
...centuries after the birth of Christ, an Anglo-Saxon invader named Leaxa settled in the Midlands of ancient Britain. His settlement was named Laxton, or Lexington-"the place of Leaxa's men." More than a thousand years later, men carried this already hoary name to the colony of Massachusetts where, one morning in 1775, it suddenly became historic. The name & fame of Lexington spread like wildfire through the colonies, until at last it even reached a lonely hunting camp far beyond the Cumberland Gap. "Let us call this place Lexington," said one of the hunters admiringly. And so they...
...schoolgirl in Boston, over 50 years ago, we wanted to use the name "Jabberwock" for a new school paper. We wrote to the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to ask his permission. He replied that we might use the name, then said that "wock" was an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "the result of," and we all knew the meaning of "jabber," therefore the paper would be the result of much excited discussion. He also said he would like to subscribe...
...Japanese attitude toward other nations, adds Gorer, strongly reflects certain family attitudes-they divide all societies into male and female and act accordingly. In the 19th Century, when they were busy copying Western manners, they considered the U.S. and Britain male. Then, thanks to Anglo-Saxon nonresistance to Japanese aggression, the Japanese reversed their opinion of the Western powers' sex. Pearl Harbor and the later U.S. "weakness" in declaring Manila an open city reinforced the Japs' notion. What Japan needs to become a cooperative member of world society, according to Gorer, is less domestic discipline, more virile discipline...
Said he: "Had the church succeeded in placing all nations on the heart of her people, we should never have been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to be imbued with more feeling of racial superiority and are guilty of more arrogant snobbery toward those of another color than any other people. The church has apparently not succeeded in inculcating humility in English-speaking whites...