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...Hitler," but are now marked "He died for Germany." To an Aussie we met up the road I said: "I suppose many of your pals were lost." He just looked at me sadly and then smiled and said: "Yes, of course, but we've got to beat the Hun...
Then there was Epstein's Christ, which one outraged cleric compared (with Empire inclusiveness) to "some degraded Chaldean or African . . . an Asiatic, American or Hun . . . some emaciated Hindu or badly grown Egyptian...
...Allied air bases in east and south China." Some of the fields lay within 700 miles of Japan. The wonderful thing to the newspaper readers was word that planes of the Chinese air force had gone into the air to fight back; and had even bombed Japanese garrisons. "Hun hun hao," they said-"wonderful...
...more than that. Russia, it seems, has shown great military capacity and efficiency, while the ineptitude of England has been on various occasions humiliating. And, above all, Russia has shown a greatness and ferocity of will and conviction equal to, if not greater than, the vaunted fanaticism of the Hun. So, for all these reasons, the fact of Russia is most prominent in the minds of Englishmen, and in their emotions, too. In a word, Soviet Russia is immensely popular. By comparison, their cousin country of America is scarcely noticed; at best, America is taken for granted; at worst, they...
...left him impatient of routine precautions. For him, no such impedimenta as gauntlets and goggles. Barehanded, open-eyed, through 23 days of combat duty at the peak of the Battle for Britain he went against the Messerschmitts. He had downed his quota in dogfights, learned to "Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action, as though mesmerized by a snake." That time he got away, to crash-land safely...