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...Afraid? It is an axiom among battle-tried U.S. troops that "anybody who is not scared of bombs and bullets is a damn liar." The Infantry Journal article confirms this contention, says it is as true of the veteran as the green soldier, but it is also true of the enemy. "Germans and Japs get just as scared as Americans and Britons...
...Freedom . . ." Drucker asserts, "is inconceivable outside and before the Christian era. . . . The roots of freedom are in the Sermon on the Mount and in the Epistles of St. Paul. . . . Freedom is responsible choice. . . ." It is never a release and always a responsibility. Alongside this axiom of freedom he sets another: Freedom implies an admission that man is imperfect. Perfect men who know all the answers would have the right and duty to rule absolutely. The men who believe they know all the answers in this age are the "rational liberals." Their sense of their absolute right to put these answers...
Except among politicos, there was hardly any pre-election excitement at all. The light registration had long been noted; it was an axiom that this year voters were "apathetic." Whether it was really apathy, or some deeper discontent or bafflement, would be clearer after the results were...
...government and oldtime religion." He sent a fiery campaign booklet to all farmers: Do You Want Your Child to Go to School With Negroes? But his attempt to ride back to office on the race issue was a rank failure. Last week's election simply proved a political axiom laid down by Abraham Lincoln...
...Jawaharlal Nehru explained that nonviolence envisaged more than industrial strikes-it would be a general strike, peaceful rebellion. Nehru's thesis was simple: only Indians could organize India for war, because anybody could do anything better than the Government of India today-that is a fundamental axiom...