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...Burma was invaded, organized an emergency ambulance service and put field hospitals where they are most needed. Last fortnight Dr. Seagrave set up temporary shop in the middle of a bomb-wrecked and deserted Burmese town, spent three days & nights at the operating table almost without rest, in his ceaseless effort to save the lives of wounded Chinese soldiers...
...push might take one of several courses. It might strike through Turkey toward the oil of the Caucasus. But the barren mountain wastes of Asiatic Turkey would be hard going and easy to defend-if, after Hitler's ceaseless diplomatic pressure, Turkey still chose to defend herself.* More likely, Hitler would strike toward the Caucasus through Russia, would by-pass or edge along western Turkey and drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq. And very likely he would blast down the Mediterranean toward Suez, whose capture would speed him toward joining the Japanese in the Indian...
...Singapore he said: "A ceaseless stream of ships, men and materials have flowed from this country for a year and a half in order to build up and sustain our armies in the Middle East. We had to do our best to give substantial aid to Russia. . . . How then, in this posture, gripped and held and battered as we were, could we have provided for the safety of the Far East against such an avalanche of fire and steel as has been hurled upon us by Japan...
Though evolutionists have long since modified and refined Darwin's theory that biological development is the result of natural selection, particularly of ceaseless strife and ruthless elimination of the unfit, Darwinism has been called in as scientific justification for the Marxist class struggle, the worst abuses of laissez-faire capitalism, the growth of militarism and competitive nationalism...
...positions with rifle, machine gun, tank and plane, careless of his losses. Bitterly, savagely and calculatingly, the tall men from the U.S. and the short men from the island fought back. It was a battle of churning movement: swift slashes of armored cars and men in trucks, ceaseless slamming of artillery, swiftly emplaced, swiftly moved with the tide of battle...