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Pointing out that Churchill was given a Doctor of Laws in 1943 "acclaiming the man who led Britain through its darkest hour of war," the letter remarked that "he now fills a different role... (he) pleads for an Anglo-American bloc... which must eventually lead to war," and ought therefore to be reconsidered in that light...
...foreign affairs at a time when the country was facing a slow and perhaps agonizing battle for survival. The second Battle of Britain would not be as dramatic as the first. The skies over the Empire would not be as black as in Churchill's finest, darkest hour; but they would be a lasting grey. The uniquely delicate bonds and balances of the Empire were being strained and upset as never before...
...learned to slice and serve his generous chunks of U.S. life methodically. Caspar (The Timid Soul) appears Sundays and Mondays. The pitilessly fanatic and bad-mannered bridge players run Fridays. Boyhood's lovingly elaborated triumphs (The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime) and defeats (Life's Darkest Moment} appear on Saturdays and Tuesdays. Thursdays bring How to Torture Your Husband (or Wife). On Wednesdays, in The Unseen Audience, he pokes a sharp-pointed stick at radio-which of all mixed blessings most needs satirizing, and gets it least. Webster, in fact, is possibly radio...
Rules for War. As boss of A.T.C.'s Africa-Middle East Wing he scoffed at dire warnings that planes could not fly 1) through Africa's dreaded dust storms, 2) at night. He did both, stringing radio beacons across thousands of miles of darkest Africa. Result: operating efficiency shot up over 300%- and the accident rate went down. Then he was handed a bigger job : running the lifeline to China over the Hump. There, as in Africa, the big reason for not flying was "weather." So Hardin drafted a curt order: "Effective immediately, there will be no more...
Stalin's prose, at least in translation, commonly gives the impression of having been distilled in a concrete mixer. But it is easy to understand how his dogged reiteration that victory was sure shored up Russian morale during the darkest days...