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...Churchill has given more than a hint that he is for No. 2. That, I suspect, would be my own choice. . . . The Moslems of North-west India are the Protestant Boys of the East, as convinced as any Belfast Orangemen that the Protestant Boys shall carry the Drum, and much better fighters, I should say, than either we or the Germans. They think so themselves...
Q.E.D. After staging vast maneuvers on India's long-turbulent North-West Frontier, the Army announced officially: "Our troops are being prepared for the day when a vast offensive movement will be launched against the enemy...
...spring the true Harvard Freshman should have inured himself to the charms of our neighbors 14 miles to the north-west and quite probably will have moved on the greener fields of Northampton, Bennington, and Poughkeepsie...
While the tanks were tangled, Indian infantry stormed Hellfire. These wiry veterans of crag warfare on India's North-West Frontier sneaked into defiles and crevasses as obscurely as rock-dwelling lizards. They stormed post after post, took many, and by night felt confident of taking the rest...
Those lectures did not deserve the name of lectures, which at Harvard had come to be a synonym for dullness. The scenes of flatboats on the Ohio, and Germans and Yankees moving into the North-west side by side to carve out Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, were not lecture scenes. Nor were the discussions about what drove these people on into the West. The vision of free lands, cattle, and finally wheat drew them like a magnet, and drew their sons across the Mississippi and onto the plains. And the people sitting in the wagons which creaked through...