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...Beaver to broadcast to his fellow Canadians his passionate conviction that the United Nations' No. 1 battlefront is Russia, where supplies and men must be rushed for a "deadly, offensive stroke." Giving a Beaverish twist to the Beatitudes, the welterweight lord declared: "Unless we have resolute, determined, brave citizens trained to handle the tanks and guns . . . then we cannot be blessed, we cannot be the peacemakers, we cannot inherit the earth...
...military terms, the British withdrawal made good sense: lacking the men, ships and planes for effective defense of the Andamans, General Sir Archibald Wavell had wisely chosen to save what he had for the coming Battle of India. It was a sign that the British were done with brave but hopeless sacrifices. It was also a sign of their military weakness in India...
There was 58-year-old G. Pilhofer, learned in many of New Guinea's 300 native dialects, who had written many schoolbooks and translated the New Testament into Kate (pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...
Warriors. In Coffeyville, Kans., an Osage Indian introduced his family to a visitor. "I am Brave Eagle," he announced. "This is my son, Fighting Bird- and this is my grandson, Four-Motored Bomber...
...Voice of Fighting Russia is almost a kid's book of brave deeds along the front and behind both lines-farmers weeping with outraged peasant piety as they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting...