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...publicity. It hasn't lent itself to the copy-starved portables of reporters with the same excitement which war can marshal. It is essentially a tranquil, home-loving, field and stream, house and garden sort of condition. It has never had such valuable props in its kit as patriotism, heroism, bright ribbony medals, brass bands, and the devoted support of the ladies...
...Lord Tang kept his whereabouts in Jehol a secret, last week, to avoid being bombed by Japanese planes. He used a portable wireless transmitter to give orders to his generals. For not selling out to Japan he was hailed as a hero in far distant teeming Chinese cities where heroism begins again, after centuries, to be fashionable...
...Nanking the so-called Chinese Government took no steps to send either the heroic igth or any other Chinese army to recapture Shanhaikwan-an impossible task. "Every Chinese should feel happy and honored to die like the Shanhaikwan heroes," bleated Nanking's Daily News. "Such bravery and heroism is proof that there is hope of a rebirth of the Chinese nation and of Chinese glory...
...only generous to remember that they were equally sincere in following that spirit. No matter how misguided their ideal, as we see it, they supported their deal with valor and surrendered their lives to what they considered truth; hence, they are entitled to the name of hero and martyr. Heroism transcends the fleeting concepts of any single group or time. It must bespeak a noble answer to the call set forth in the past as well as in the present. That "those who died in 1914-18 were ... led to believe that they could attain a sweet and lasting peace...
Significance. In his peroration, which drew the Chamber's landslide vote of confidence, M. Herriot declared, "It was not only the heroism of her sons that saved France in 1914 but her magnificent innocence which drew to her aid all the free peoples of the world...