Word: inhumanities
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...Americans (67%) feel that they can get along considerably better with Germany than with Japan after the war, the Gallup Poll reported last week. The pollsters documented U.S. hate for Japan by jotting down the adjectives citizens applied to the Jap: "Barbaric, evil, brutal, dirty, treacherous, sneaky, fanatical, savage, inhuman, bestial, uncivilized, un-Christian and thoroughly untrustworthy...
...Bloody Inhuman. A hackneyed remark about Sir Arthur Travers Harris is that he has "a gentle face and a furious tongue." At home with handsome Lady Harris (his second wife, whom he married in 1938) and their four-year-old daughter Jackie, he can indeed be gentle. But men who serve with him learn sooner or later that his gentle face is a sort of booby trap, luring the unwary to the lash of his tongue...
...R.A.F. subordinates usually esteem his quality of directness. "Oh, we love him," one of them said recently; "he's so bloody inhuman." In the first bomber unit which he commanded, between World Wars I & II, he was reputed to be the rudest man in the R.A.F. He was also an effective commander: he developed the "pacification by bombing" which kept unruly Indian border tribes more or less under control. When soft-hearted folk protested, Harris' friends explained that he always gave a village a full day's warning before his bombers destroyed...
...General. The camps were an outgrowth of the old disciplinary-barracks (D.B.) scheme at Fort Leavenworth. The enlightened Leavenworth system (famed among old Army men for its "restored" enlisted men) had been set up when post-World War I investigations showed that some U.S. prison camps in France were inhuman institutions where soldier-prison ers were beaten, robbed and starved...
...afternoon early last October a happy, jaunty Irishman, whose bantam-sized body houses an almost inhuman store of nervous energy, strolled into his four-room apartment in Washington's elegant Shoreham Hotel. With sly casualness, fully aware of the dramatics of the occasion, he said to his wife: "Well, Maude, I've just given up my job." The job was that of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court-which had seemed, 16 months before, like the pinnacle of achievement to a man born on the wrong end of famed, aristocratic King Street in Charleston, South Carolina...