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...They are loyal and patriotic. They were heartbroken when they were taken from line organizations (infantry, artillery, etc.) of the West Coast because "they couldn't be trusted." Many would prefer to be on the firing; line, but accept the Army's decision to use them in other places. They hate the "dirty Japs" as much as the rest...
Reporters found him bewildered, heartbroken : "I have done my best to repudiate wrong and evil in governmental affairs. .. . I have utterly failed. . . . Righteousness has been crucified and the people I love have condemned the things I held most sacred. ... I have lived according to my philosophy of government and now . . . the flag of that philosophy [is] trailing in defeat. ... I accept the . . . final verdict...
...eloquent speakers in December 7 are the laconic, who marked their feelings as they said, "Well, it's here," or the heartbroken who said nothing at all. There is a simplicity in the reactions of the people which must seem childish to the Nazis, infantile to the Japanese. For when the news of war broke on the cities that were already turning into armed camps, the soldiers and the folks at home alike asked the most warlike question of them all: "Will Christmas leaves be canceled...
...South was too cruel for Melancthon. The New South deflowered him on his first night home, in the person of Gaberiel, stripling daughter of Overseer Haley Sanders, from the Arkansas bottomlands. The New South was a heartbroken half-wilderness in which dogs "had become as pagan as wolves, tearing down stock in the open field"; in which anarchic marauders of both races assaulted Mel-ancthon's home and had their heads blown off or were hanged in too-cold blood. The New South was the Confederate deserter, Haley Sanders, with a calm about killing which shocked war-hard Melancthon...
...Jacques Thibaud, Cellist Pablo Casals. Today thin, aging Pianist Cortot is a member of the Vichy State Council, ranks as guardian of France's musical tradition. Although in recent years he has conducted more than he has played, he still gives piano concerts. Violinist Thibaud, for a time heartbroken by the loss of a son in the war, now plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with the Spanish Government. He gives concerts in southern France...