Word: destroyed
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Cynical Leadership. "Irrespective of the abilities or motives of the individuals involved, such long continuance of power is hazardous to the perpetuation of free Government. . . . Power held so long breeds within itself abuses which will ultimately destroy a democratic society. Those who hold power too long begin to distrust the very source of their power; the people seem to them hopelessly ignorant. As a result, entrenched leadership becomes cynical and remote and it fails to take the people into its confidence...
...experienced in intellectual and civil life to decorate towns with beautiful works; the action of the ignorant to destroy these ornaments. . . . Beyond all cities . . . Rome is . . . a monument of the virtues of the world to all posterity, and a trespass against her greatness would justly be regarded as an outrage against all time. . . . Destroying Rome thou wilt lose not the city of another, but thine own. Preserving her . . . thou wilt enrich thyself with the most splendid possession of the earth...
Last week General Eaker said that the tactical role will soon be paramount: "It is the task," said he, "of the Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. to destroy the factories and transport and weapons of the Germans so that our invasion casualties will be cut down. That is our stern assignment this winter...
...spearheaded lines on the map stop away short of Tokyo. How would Mountbatten proceed across the part of China which is firmly held by Jap troops? Where would Nimitz head after he had seized the bases on the Jap periphery? How would he destroy a Jap fleet which refused to engage? Where would MacArthur go from the Philippines...
...official Soviet Union utterances had indicated that Stalinist, nationalistic Russia may well be uninterested in a Communist Germany, that cooperative Wehrmacht generals could indeed hope to keep a postwar army. Many a German officer must be pondering what Joseph Stalin said last Nov. 6: "We do not seek to destroy Germany. . . . We do not seek to destroy all organized military force in Germany, for every literate man understands it is ... unwise from the point of view of the future...