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...greater error. . . . It is not necessary to make any sacrifices. . . . We might as well realize that idealism has spread its wings and taken flight and that so far as mere power politics are concerned, we have more to gain by making peace than by allowing ourselves to be bled white...
During the whole course of Churchill's life, Britain had been engaged in a hidden or open life & death struggle with Germany. In World War I the struggle had bled Britain white. In World War II Britain had had her closest squeak since Napoleon. More than any other single man, Winston Churchill had saved the Empire and in doing so had saved Western civilization. But there had been a price...
...Ozarks, and Preacher Howard's knottiest problem, has been moonshining. One of his book's most poignant chapters concerns his watch by the bedside of a delirious 14-year-old boy dying in agony of fusel-oil poisoning after drinking moonshine. The boy's eyeballs bled and he screamed: "Git my eyes, Pappy; they's rollin' off the bed." When the boy died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor. Said the uncle after Howard prayed...
...armor might strike for Reims. At the turn of the week, the Nazis reported U.S. army in Reims and U.S. Flyers reported the Nazia in full, disorganized flight to the Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question was whether the Germans could make a stand short of the Maginot Line. It was doubtful...
...collaborationists were hauled from the refuge of a jail. One was smashed across the face. His nose bled sickeningly. He began to cry. Then both were kicked downstairs, stood up against a wall by a group of resistance men, brandishing rifles and pistols. A group of U.S. photographers were told the pair was to be executed so the photographers could make pictures. TIME & LIFE'S Robert Landry protested that the men should be given a trial, at least. But the Frenchmen shouted: "We have been waiting four years for this-they are traitors...