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...Army that I am almost ashamed to look upon pen and paper. ... I have long wondered how so many clerks could be employed in the different departments at Washington, but now the matter is explained -about one half of them are employed in forming troublesome reports to be rendered by the really working part, for we have to render accounts and duplicates of every man in the service in as many different forms as one can possibly imagine, [signed] Jos. Vogdes, Sergt. Major Voltigeurs, Mexico City...
...your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee." Then he murmurs "I am the resurrection and the life," etc., followed by the plea for mercy...
...with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria on his expensive violin...
...difficult struggle for months to come. Said Germany's Vice Admiral Friedrich Lützow, broadcasting last week: "We willingly concede that our enemies leave nothing undone to make it very difficult for our U-boats. We admit that the enemy is doing everything in his power to render his anti-U-boat defenses ever more effective, to replace the losses by new construction and by strengthening discipline among his crews . . . the fight will become ever harder. We are prepared for this...
...until it becomes the emotion that predominant ly determines how the United Nations will act, then the forces of evil will have won their greatest victory. They will have infected those who are mightier than the Axis. Thereby they will have assured a continuity of cruelty and folly . . . and render it impossible for mankind to achieve a just and durable peace...