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...were unable to accommodate themselves spiritually and practically to that fact. Hence they have failed to play their part as a world power -a failure which has had disastrous consequences for themselves and for all mankind." Luce calls on the U.S. to be as big as its opportunity, to assert that nationalism which is the virility of healthy nations. For "we are the inheritors of all the great principles of Western civilization...
...spreading his propaganda, Friedrich declared, Hitler does not assert what he wishes us to believe; he assumes it in his statements. To implant the idea that the Nazis will win the war, he does not say that "Germany will win" but instead "after the war, America should trade with a victorious Germany...
...does the moral superiority which makes the people of the democracies think of themselves as the children of light, constantly result in doubt, skepticism, confusion, unsureness about objectives, diffusion of effort, widespread paralysis of the will to act, dread of defeat, while the children of totalitarian darkness constantly assert an immoral superiority which they translate into initiative, decision, unity of purpose, invincible organization, victory in diplomacy, espionage...
...highlights of the evening is expected when a strange boy and girl are selected from the audience and presented with a script, which Freshman leaders assert has been "specially prepared," and asked to read aloud from the stage...
...thought of the old fighter for freedom - his life threatened, his work undone - dictating in blindness to his dull daughters the wisdom of his total defeat: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes...