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Though he would rather write about batons than bats, Cardus thinks that cricket expresses, in microcosm, the whole English character. "If everything else in this nation of ours were lost but cricket," he writes, "it would be possible to reconstruct [from it] all the eternal Englishness which has gone to the establishment of [the] Constitution and the laws...
...hapless middle class he burbled: "With the victory of the Chinese Communists, half the world's people are now Communist. Communism is the future. Japan must trade with the rest of Asia to survive, and all the rest of Asia is rapidly going Communist. Trust us ... We will reconstruct Japan and make it bright and happy...
...crux of all attempts to reconstruct Germany educationally and culturally, said Grace, is the fact that over a period of 12 years, the Nazis "relentleesly attacked the forces of moral responsibility and spiritual enlightenments...
...Curious Spectacle. He attacked and denounced as he wished-rebelling against Alfonso's tottering monarchy ("Spaniards, your state is no more-reconstruct it") and denouncing the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera ("this curious spectacle"). Finally, he founded a political party made up of intellectuals-the League for the Service of the Republic, which sent him to the 1931 Constituent Cortes. There, in his elegant Castilian, he helped write the constitution of the Spanish Republic: "The magnificent and momentous time has come," he cried, "when fate imposes upon Spaniards the duty of acting grandly...
...show Asia that it could remake a Japanese territory into an independent, democratic nation. The comparative simplicity of the task undertaken by the American Military Government has permitted careful evaluation of the progress at each stop of the occupation. Briefly, General Hodge's assignment was; to eliminate Japanese control, reconstruct the economy, set up a democratic government, and get out. Unfortunately, the peoples of Asia now behold a complete failure to achieve these goals...