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...after the war, Australia-from her 120 million sheep and millions of cattle-can supply us with wool and steaks . . .; she has a surplus of wheat and barley; all this can repay us and mutually increase both our standards of living...
...atrocity stories were backed up by harangues on the theme that Italian immigrants have provided "the most solid working arms and the most capable brains on the North American Continent; . . . now the Americans are coming back over your ports and cities to repay you with bullets and to spread death and destruction." For Italo-Americans abroad the Fascists provided another line, easily picked up by the cheapest short-wave radio: Mussolini was forced to enter World War II because Britain would not grant the "just demands" of the Italian people for "freedom from fear." This ancient outcry comes from...
...huge Rhinebeck estate where he spent an occasional weekend, he wrote: "If I had one tenth what those people have, I'd be a great man ten years quicker." He still felt anguish at being in his mother's debt; he hoped to repay her and assert his superiority by the little boy's revenge of becoming famous. "I shall be great -if I do not die too soon - and you will be known as my mother." During a 1924 trip through Europe he pleaded: "Please, if you are able, stand by me a little longer...
...March, also, the R.A.F. celebrated its 25th anniversary. Britain's great Air Force, up from nothing since World War I (see p. 98), was strong enough in its maturity to repay Germany in kind for London and Coventry. How strong would it have to be-could any air force ever be strong enough-to knock Germany...
...justice, to reject all desire for vengeance; to seek God's forgiveness for any hatred we may harbor; and, without shrinking from the harshest duty imposed upon us by our consciences under God, to remain ever mindful that He alone may say, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay...