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Soon they will learn to shoot and kill all over again. Perhaps the army will be "democratic," but it will be an army and will be run by men who served a brutal military tradition. Even now there are frightening sings, like the regrowth of duelling fraternities in the universities...
...they have ideal conditions for their propaganda. Italy's chief problem is overpopulation . . . All the economic aid imaginable can't solve this problem. Italy needs emigration and Italians are willing to emigrate to any land ... As for the Fascists: they are chronic sentimentalists who are fostering a regrowth of nationalism. However, in the case of Trieste, they appeal to genuine Italian patriotism and rightly so ... The Italian claim to Trieste is legitimate. What Italians want is the right and opportunity to work and justice for their national interests. Until the Western powers deal with Italy on this basis...
...Russian industrial and agricultural suicide, minerals could not be wrecked in the ground, fertile fields could not be set afire. Hitler was presumably not trying to conquer Russia just for the day or the year. The question remained as to what he might get, given a reasonable time for regrowth and repairs. Generalizations could be made about an imagined conquest of European Russia (west of the Urals) if Asiatic Russia, from the Urals to the Pacific, remained in the hands of a refugee Russian Government...
...island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...
...mentality? Would it send him seeking Mary in whatever far-distant corner of the earth he had encountered her? Suppose he subsequently developed tinnitus [ringing in the ears], would voices whisper 'Mary'? Would the skinned portion of Mary be replaced with an undecorated regrowth. . . .? Would I be liable for damages in this event...