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...early action the new organization can capture the imagination of the world it will surely not belie the expectations of those who see in it the last chance of saving themselves and their children from the scourge of war." So far, U.N. has captured few imaginations. Insofar as they paid any attention to it at all, the world's plain people watched how their own national leaders were doing in the U.N. arena. It was typical of the state of the United Nations that Trygve Lie enjoyed clamorous popularity in Norway, where he was feted on his soth birthday...
...Insofar as the novel forsakes pathology for plot, it is the story of the struggle for local commercial, social and political power of two Willowspring dynasties...
...militarists are guilty. The great majority of Japs, including Premier Shidehara, believe in peace as a policy. But they still re gard Japan as the aggrieved party in the events leading up to the China war. They are not conscious of having adopted a national policy of aggres sion. Insofar as that policy existed, "some bad men were responsible." The idea that aggression is morally repre hensible does not yet appear to be part of Japanese ethics...
Nevertheless, insofar as such an action does not interfere with our own way of life, we heartily ratify the action of our Government in joining hands with a state, no matter what color its banner, if such a union will further our aim of beating Japan. Few Quixotes still proclaim that this war is being fought for ideals, and I believe there is no American-Protestant, Catholic, etc.-who is unwilling to welcome any type government into an alliance which will cooperate in preventing future wars...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, at last defeated and taken in Austria, notably broke the pattern insofar as he professed complete loyalty to Adolf Hitler, blamed defeat on both military and political bunglers. But, smiling and spruce and personally unbowed, he was a living embodiment of Wehrmacht "honor." ¶I General Kurt Dittmar, theGerman ground forces' prize analyst, was asked by his U.S. and British captors to write a speech for broadcasting to the defeated Germans. He did, but it was not used: he had composed a masterful exoneration of the Wehrmacht...