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...Murray style (the ex-governor is largely self-taught and his book is one of the longest literary rambles on record), poses certain problems for the lay reader. So Author Murray included a guide through the labyrinth. "First, read 'Post-Logue' at end of Book IX, Volume III; Second, then begin at Chapter A, Book IX, Volume III, and read all that Book; then, Third, begin first Chapter Volume I, keeping in mind parts first read...
...political philosophy, is scarcely 100 years old. It is practically impossible to snare it in a neat net of definition. But its manifestations are everywhere. Its vigor, says Author Orton, is proved by the roster of its raging enemies. Among them he lists: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Pope Pius IX, Professor Harold Laski. "Dogmatists and determinists of the red or the black, defenders of the tyranny of men or majorities, exponents of class war, racial war, or national war, have discovered beneath their differences a common determination to give political liberalism a premature burial." It is still unburied because "liberalism...
...from Missouri had crossed the Atlantic on the cruiser Augusta in eight leisurely days, had had plenty of time to ix in his mind the definite offers he would carry to the conference: friendly help in reconciling the differences between America's European friends; practical help in putting Europe back on its feet. But if there was bickering, there would be less U.S. aid for the bickerers. The deal would be: get along together and the U.S. will work with...
Volunteers. On the day before this crisis, slim, restless Major General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, commander of the U.S. Ninth Air Force, had popped into the headquarters of 40-year-old Major General Elwood Ricardo Quesada, head of one of the Ninth's chief components-the IX Tactical Air Command, whose fighter bombers were stationed back of the First Army. "Van" Vandenberg and "Pete" Quesada went over reports, decided that this was the real thing. The immediate task was to muster every fighter bomber into attacks, to impede Rundstedt's armored spearheads. Generals Van and Pete faced hard facts...
...Saint Louis. This was the day of Saint Louis, on whose island six days ago the first Resistance center had been set up. Louis IX was one of the good French kiitigs and the people who remembered were glad it was his day on which Paris was delivered. As General Leclerc's procession slowed down the cry swelled again: "Merci! Merci! Merci...