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Chungking said: As a successor to the A.V.G. we welcome the regular American Air Force. It, no doubt, will show the same brave mastery of machines in air combat...
...Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave was still not tough enough, frightened enough, or brave enough to make certain vital decisions now-to levy taxes that would prevent inflation, to stop waste of materials badly needed for war, to draft the best fighting men in the nation. The Land of the Free plainly did not yet understand the price of freedom today...
...want you to be brave and strong while I am away. I know you will meet with trials and tribulations, and the burden will seem, at times, too heavy to carry. But some day we shall look back and find that the load wasn't too heavy after all. We must not be like those who think only of themselves...
...this the Russians called "fantastic." They counted more than 90,000 Germans killed or captured, 540 tanks and 200 planes knocked out of action. A few more such German "victories," said the Russians, would put Germany out of the war. It was a brave explanation, but it did not explain the weeks- the Russians must have spent preparing for the Kharkov push. To the question the whole world asked-could a Russian offensive be maintained...
...hundreds of innocent, scared, suspected, non-fifth-columnists. It also helps bring the book into line for its surprising epilogue. France fallen, and Sir Joseph Mainwaring blathering along about the war's having entered "a new and more glorious phase," Waugh girds up his ghosts in their brave, schoolboyish excitement over the newborn Commandos (he belongs him-self...