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There was no oratory in the few simple words he said. There was no need for it. Parliament had just heard Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden read a joint declaration by the U.S., Britain and nine other nations deploring and protesting the "bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination" of the millions of Jews trapped behind the walls of Hitler's Europe. Eden had said: "Members can be sure that we will do whatever we can to alleviate these horrors, but at this stage it must inevitably be slight...
...special interest to the beer-drinking Harvard population is the Union's assertion that two steine of beer have the same effect as a glass of whiskey, and that a person can easily get drunk on beer. A beer-drunk, according to Mrs. Putnam, is the most bestial, low type there...
Rome newspapers last week came up with a horrendous tale of the "bestial treatment" of Italians and Germans in the cruel concentration camps of the U.S. Talebearer was one Armando Tosi, onetime manager of the Italian restaurant at the New York World's Fair, who said he got his news from some of his underlings who were rounded up as unregistered aliens by the FBI last...
...Nazi press repeatedly railed against the Soviet soldiers as bestial, godless men who fight "unfairly." Said a Berlin War Ministry philosopher: "Bolshevism, having killed their souls and their religion, the Russians therefore do not fear physical death and what comes after. This Eastern war is endless killing ... as some human beings continue to exist although medicinal laws say they are dead, not having the necessary calories and vitamins for life, so the Russian Armies, beaten according to all the arts of war, fight on just because the political commissars order them...
...York, from London to Moscow. ... In Russia, Germany and Italy Demos, having slain its aristocrats and intellectuals and realizing its own incompetence to guide or protect itself, had submitted to tyrants. ..." Percy asked himself the question that every worried parent asks: "Should I therefore teach deceit, dishonor, ruthlessness, bestial force to the children in order that they survive?" He answered it as most worried parents do: "Better that they perish." For "virtue is an end in itself ... it is better for men to die than to call evil good. ..." He knew that he and all men like him could never...