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...Near here is the battlefield of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the war for Texas independence. ... As a permanent memorial of the Texas Yorktown there has been erected the most beautiful monument in the world...
...have to cross an ocean and leave an invulnerable country in order to save from disaster my defaulting debtors. Little by little I would doubtless have understood that if Europe and Africa were handed over to German militarism, Asia to Japanese militarism, America would inevitably become a battlefield and that, consequently, I would be saving my own home from destruction in defending London and in liberating Paris...
...Around? "What is your aim, what is ours? To prevent Europe again becoming a battlefield. ... To reach this aim, it is necessary to build a Europe. Then-we are first to proclaim it-integrate Germany in this Europe. But, on the other hand, we must not try to build Europe around Germany...
...contrary, if you draw away from us ... Britain will be (or will consider herself) obliged to rebuild Germany against Russia, while Russia will be (or will consider herself) forced to rebuild Germany against Britain. In either case, Europe, instead of becoming a virtual community, will become a virtual battlefield...
Most readable are the too-few pages Spender gives to translations of Nazi and proto-Nazi writings-including Novelist Ernst Jiinger's ecstatic conception of the modern battlefield...