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General Marshall began work in 1939 with the conviction that the army in a democracy is the servant of the civil population. First thing he did when he became Deputy Chief of Staff in 1938 was to study the full text of all military hearings and debates Congress had held in the five previous years...
...break out at the end of the book hovers like a force more powerful than the will of the strong-willed characters. Long before it has broken out, obscure riots and inexplicably venomous slanders twist personal and social relations. Example: Hanif, Madame de St. Remy's servant (he is as dissolute as she is pious), returns from his sweetheart to find a group of men blocking his path. '"Do you spend the night beside the road, my brothers?' he inquired. . . . and for a moment they confronted him in a silence whose menace was unmistakable. . . . Then they closed...
...narcotic imagery is sustained so effortlessly, that readers may miss the violence of its incidents and the somberness of its message (that the conqueror remains a thwarted exile in the house of the conquered). Engineer Aubrey Wall, who will not seduce Gisele, but who kicks an opium-drugged servant to death, is one Englishman for whom the prewar burden of empire was too much. Examining the canals he had built, "his nervous system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed...
...Congressmen, in their haste to have done with the whole thing, brooked no argument. Budget Director Harold D. Smith, trying as a patient civil servant to argue for the Treasury program, found the Ways & Means Committee an impatient listener. (Said one jocular member: "Mr. Smith came to town and after a couple of Democrats got through with him it was Good-bye Mr. Chips.") Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, who tried to convince the Committee that nothing less than $13.8 billion in new taxes would stave off inflation ($6 billion to be re fundable after...
Masikoni Radebe, an amiable and middle-aged Zulu, was asleep with his wife in the servant quarters of a fashionable Durban apartment house when police barged in, herded the startled couple into a waiting van. At the station the Radebes saw scores of bewildered blacks pay a pound and depart. Those who could not pay were locked up. Radebe paid and went home...