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...Joan of Arc serves him for a symbol of France-peasant and saint, feminine yet a soldier, she too was hoaxed into recantation, into momentary surrender, by the casuists and torturers, the enemy propagandists of her time. To Bernanos, France remains at heart a Christian and human patrie of which he believes 18th-Century economic nationalism made nothing but a caricature. The bourgeoisie that inherited France in the French Revolution never, he thinks, fooled the French people. "It found itself in the position of a parvenu who, after acquiring a historic estate, wonders how to make himself respected...
...Napoleon at his left hand. He expressed his desire for a more important place at the United Nations council table. When Willkie suggested occasional compromises for purpose of unity, De Gaulle stood up, raised his arm dramatically and said; "On matters of moral principle, I, like Jeanne d'Arc, can make no compromise...
...Slowly" meant "not without losses" (see p. 36); "surely" meant progress only at those points along the great arc of Japanese conquest (see map) where the U.S. struck early and hard...
Grey Skies. The pathway to the ultimate goal of a United Nations advance from the South Pacific is long and tortuous. Closer to Tokyo by 600 miles is the U.S. air base at Dutch Harbor. Here last week, at the northern end of the Japanese arc, U.S. air power struck a solid blow...
...morning as bright as a picture post card, a Japanese carrier force of some 40 warships-three carriers, two battleships, 15 to 20 light and heavy cruisers, with destroyers, seaplane tenders, gunboats and transports-appeared north of Tulagi, approaching in a great arc spread out over almost 1,700 miles of the tropic sea. U.S. ships and U.S. planes went out to meet...