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...HEATHEN DAYS 1890-1936 - H. L Mencken-Knopf...
...that period, its purposes as well as its methods. The principles of self-aggrandizement and power which guided that nation at that hour are attacked by the Crimson as they reappear today as the "American century." Rather than using the "white man's burden" and "bringing civilization to the heathen" as mere window-dressing for economic and territorial conquest, the Crimson accepts then today only if they signify understanding guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another twenty years passed, and the Crimson watched Woodrow Wilson evolve and put into practice his "new free...
...legend credits blustering Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston with instructing one of his envoys to China a century ago: "Never forget that you are the representative of Her Most Christian Majesty dealing with heathen barbarians." This week there was only one profane Chungking witticism to commemorate him: "If Lord Palmerston heard about this, he'd not only turn in his grave but jump high enough to fly a Spitfire...
...been mild as mush, meek as Milquetoast. Ever since Dec. 7, the President has been waiting for him to wade into the ranks of known U.S. Bundists, Fascists and Axis sympathizers. Finally the President could wait no longer. He told Attorney General Biddle to rise up and smite all heathen idolaters...
...Shortly after World War II began the Times lamented that "in a country professedly Christian, and a country which at the moment is staking its all in defense of Christian principles, there is a system of national education which allows the citizens of the future to have a purely heathen upbringing...