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Professor Banse concluded: "We confess that it gives us pleasure to meditate on the destruction that must sooner or later overtake this proud and seemingly invincible nation. . . . The above sentences would appear monstrous, nay rank blasphemy, to every Englishman and Englishwoman in the world-if they ever saw them...
...Only Finland, superb, nay, sublime in the jaws of peril, Finland shows what free men can do. . . . There, exposed for all the world to see, is the military incapacity of the Red Army and of the Red Air Force. . . . Everyone can see how Communism robs the soul of a nation, how it makes it abject and hungry in peace and proves it base and abominable in war. ... If the light of freedom which still burns so brightly in the frozen North should be finally quenched, it might well herald a return to the Bark Ages when every vestige of human...
...vote was moved. The Chamber's division bell rang. A few straddling Liberals left the room rather than commit themselves. The Provincial Legislature then condemned the National Government -aye, 44 (including the entire Conservative Opposition); nay...
...societies, and which will be found till the human mind ceases to be drawn in opposite directions by the charm of habit, and by the charm of novelty. Not only in politics, but in literature, in art, in science, in surgery and mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Every where there is a class of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find also every where another class...
...Greene, to put the matter unoriginally, is an idealist in this question of war. He accepts the protestations of France and Britain that they are waging a crusade in complete good faith. He is convinced that this is essentially--nay entirely--a conflict between naked power and reason in international affairs, between the suppression of human rights and liberties and the glorification of the same...