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Last week they packed up and whooped off home, full of schemes to give their contemporaries a "fighting faith." Said Mrs. Roosevelt in My Day: "It is very exciting to be with a lot of young people. . . . I feel there is for most of them at least a keen desire to open up new vistas...
...German airmen feel quite as Wagnerian: "Franz Putzke was in one of his serious moods . . . he wasn't so keen about shooting the people who ran. . . . Lederer said: 'They are our enemies, aren't they? One must kill his enemies, too!' I said, 'Who are we to decide what to do or what not to do? The Führer decides.' Putzke wouldn't agree, and Lederer called him a democratic coward. . . . Of course, Putzke isn't a democratic coward. He's just not interested. Originally he wanted...
...engineer busily tried to make something out of the telephone company's books. Meanwhile, they had encountered a very rugged character named James Franklin ("Frank") Dees, proprietor of the firm. Aged 60, weighing 200 pounds, his muscular physique topped off by iron-grey hair, an engaging grin and keen brown eyes, Phoneman Frank Dees fought back with a counter-complaint. He asked for permission to raise his rates, discontinue the exchange at nearby Livingston, force subscribers to pay their phone bills. Snapped he: "The kind of service they're gettin' is the kind they're payin...
...these young officers have developed to its highest point is the skillful use of great superiority in numbers to compensate for shortages of equipment. The keen-weaponed spearheads of Japanese attacks are allowed to drive into the Chinese mass. Then the mass of Chinese gradually not only envelops the spearhead, but harrasses its support and its supply lines. This sort of tactic might have bothered the Germans in France if the Germans had had to cope with so immense a battlefield, with such campaign-wise veterans as the Chinese, and with an enemy outnumbering them three or four...
...neither side was properly coordinated: Britain, lacking aircraft, lost ships, and Germany, lacking ships, lost men. But in holing the Bismarck the British used almost uncanny coordination. And the Bismarck, without planes to scout and destroyers to screen, was helpless once she was caught. British coordination was almost too keen. In its determination to catch the fat prize, the Royal Navy took a long risk - neglected convoys, deserted Gibraltar, sent out the Home Fleet, left Britain's normal supply lines and normal defenses almost naked of ships. Over 100 vessels were said to be involved in the hunt...