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...incompetence to guide or protect itself, had submitted to tyrants. ..." Percy asked himself the question that every worried parent asks: "Should I therefore teach deceit, dishonor, ruthlessness, bestial force to the children in order that they survive?" He answered it as most worried parents do: "Better that they perish." For "virtue is an end in itself ... it is better for men to die than to call evil good. ..." He knew that he and all men like him could never be really defeated, because they could never be changed...
GERMANY MUST PERISH!-Theodore N. Kaufman-Argyle Press...
...grisliness preceded the proposal. One day reviewers unwrapped a small, oblong parcel, found inside a miniature black cardboard coffin with a hinged lid. In it was a card reading, "Read GERMANY MUST PERISH! Tomorrow you will receive your copy." There was no identification of the sender...
...crowed: "There is no loophole through which Hitler may wriggle. Pieces of the missiles have been picked up with German identification marks on them. We are forced to one of two conclusions. They either meant it or they didn't. They either intentionally bombed another country, or, and perish the thought, they aimed at England and hit Ireland. Even Mr. Corrigan could do better...
However, though democracy cannot perish ultimately, "long periods of suffering and frustration would be saved if the free states of the World could now drive forward to secure a free world...