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Bataan was gone; in the Pacific the Jap was everywhere; the U.S. faced its darkest spring. But the country was finding itself. If more defeats came, they would be endured. For those who had eyes to see, out of the dead, defeated days a new nation was rising...
...Raid. In darkest Harlem, 36 air-raid wardens were caught in a raid by police, fined for shooting craps...
...Crime Would Be Mortal. In the darkest hour since Dunkirk, Churchill's voice reached untold millions of British subjects in a broadcast from 10 Downing Street. There was plenty of fight still left in his tough, pudgy frame, but he was more somber, less eloquent than he had ever been before. "All I have to offer," he said, "is hard adverse war for many months ahead. . . . Many misfortunes, severe, tortuous losses, remorseless and gnawing anxieties, lie before...
...Churchill failed to utter even a syllable on the one subject uppermost in British minds: the escape of the German ships through the Channel. To his critics he turned what those critics call the stubborn side of his character-the stubborn side which carried Britain through her darkest previous hours: "One fault, one crime and one crime only can rob the United Nations and the British people . . . of the victory upon which their lives and honor depends: a weakening in our purpose, and therefore in our unity. That is the mortal crime...
...Chinese, as always, took their bitterness manfully. Dr. Chiang, closing the conference on Chungking hill, looked back on China's years of war: "Night fell early upon China's independence," he said. "But we held on, hoping against hope. Then at midnight, at the darkest hour, we suddenly found at our side stout and loyal companions in arms...