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...slept fitfully, aware even in sleep that a blow might fall before morning. The conquerors, too, knew fear, for fear had conquered them first and turned them into conquerors. Across the ocean in the Americas, people who were still free had begun to feel a strange new force coming nearer-a force that seemed irresistible, that turned courage into fear...
...chairs, aged to the resonance of violins, joined in horrid synphony. Alas, now he was beyond help and beyond reason. The noises were now growing to a terrible crescendo, now receding, beating about his throbbing temples, laughing, cackling, snarling, howling, roaring! They were after him! They were getting nearer! He stared about him with the terror of a cornered animal. Then he ran. Through the door he crashed, out into the Yard, across the Square, unmindful of cars, and into a hardware store. "Give me the biggest axe you've got!" he screamed. Panting he rushed back and burst into...
...labor of Lenin's reasons for helping Kerensky defend Petrograd against General Kornilov. "It would be wrong," wrote Lenin, as quoted admiringly by Laski, "to think that we have departed from the task of the conquest of power by the proletariat. Not at all. We have approached much nearer to it; only not directly, but obliquely. And at this very minute, we must conduct our agitation against Kerensky . . . by demanding a most active, energetic and revolutionary war against Kornilov. The development of that war alone may put us in power." "That," adds Professor Laski, "is the strategy the Labour...
...American; he consulted again & again with the Government's managers of defense, of money, of diplomacy and of the armed forces. While the sailorman President's back was tactfully turned, many a New Dealer was dropped overboard with a quiet splash. As the new horizon drew nearer, the new crew looked more & more like a Who's Who of Industry...
...German submarines have bases far nearer the British life lines...