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...told the Japanese nation even more explicitly that the war was lost: "The only thing left to be done is to think out how to cope with this stark reality. Now it is high time that all of our nation should face reality squarely. Everyone should have his own firmest declaration. War is a reality. Only with the greatest determination can one cope with the reality...
...confiscations amounted to the most important agrarian revolution in Europe since Russia liquidated the kulaks† as a class. On the surface it seemed designed to break up a land economy built around baronial estates, substitute an economy of small farms-firmest foundation of the political Middle Way. But one question remained to be answered: why was the Moscow-sponsored Lublin government carrying out a small-farm land policy which Moscow (after allowing peasants to carve up the big estates in 1917) declared to be wasteful and inefficient when it began to collectivize the peasants...
Looking back, some of the firmest strategic bombermen believe that 600 heavy bombers, in April 1943, would have enabled the Eighth Air Force to cripple German industry before the Nazis could rearrange their defenses...
...fruitful collaboration was broken up at last. Enemies made trouble. Maquet went into business for himself, prospered nicely while Dumas squandered fortunes. Dumas missed his second brain. "There would be forty fine stories more," he once sighed, "if the best, the firmest, and the most productive friendship that ever existed had not been broken by the tittle-tattle of false friends...
Then he emphasized his firmest intention: that the U.S. can, will and must do business with Russia. He was asked: What was Stalin like? The reply: Something like me-a realist...