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Respect, Then Esteem. Into Nairobi last week, to adjudge the balance between the settlers' anxiety, the campaign's necessity, and the black man's historic emergence in Africa, flew Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. It was Lyttelton's third visit to Kenya in 16 months, and the war's latest statistics bore out his concern. Six thousand British, 44,000 African troops, police and home guards are now deployed against some 14,000 Mau Mau and their supporters. The war costs more than twice as much ($1,800,000 a month) this year as last...
First, so far as our national welfare and safety are involved, I am convinced that the actions of the committees are both futile and self-defeating. They are, also, tragically destructive of our national morale at home, and of the esteem and confidence of our friends abroad. They are, in fact, of use only to our enemies. As an American citizen, therefore, I must do everything I legitimately can to bring about their abolition...
...interested in sociology are deeply concerned with the importance of raising the field to a level of esteem enjoyed by the older sciences. It was therefore discouraging to read Sorokin's views on morality in the U.S., implicitly presented as those of a noted sociologist...
...suckling Spaniards at her breast, and round about, the legend : Maria Ruina Angliae." There was truth in the legend, for never had England sunk so low, militarily and financially, never had she known such general instability and discontent. And never had Mary herself sunk so low in her own esteem. Her handsome husband, after perfunctorily doing his duty in the hope of providing England with a Catholic heir, walked out on her when she proved barren. Calais, England's proud outpost in France, fell to the French. Ill and miserable, she found that her last days were...
...esteem with which it is held in America is obvious from the number and the caliber of distinguished American scholars who travel to Salzburg to serve there as members of the Seminar's faculty, without remuneration. The Seminar undertakes with remarkable, if not unqualified, success to explain America to Europe. This is done at Salzburg by many of our most brilliant and articulate scholars speaking to those who do now or in the near future will, influence the public opinion of Europe...