Word: sheean
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...joined the U.S. Air Forces, in which he is now a lieutenant colonel. In a way that might have surprised Rayna Prohme, Sheean has finally turned from writing to fighting...
...Sweet Adeline. Back in the U.S. for a lecture tour, Sheean strongly disapproved of the Roosevelt-Willkie election campaign. It was "perfectly clear" to Sheean that no Republican administration would "dare" repeal the New Deal's social legislation, so "what was the sense of the argument?" The only person Sheean met in those days "who did not talk about this election as if the fate of humanity depended upon it was the President himself...
Gloomily, Sheean flew back to England and accompanied a British patrol to a North Atlantic rendezvous with a convoy of "the dirty little tramps that saved the world." Then he went out to China. It was a return to his youth of Personal History. He still has snide innuendos for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Government, pleasant things to say about Chinese Communists, and fine passages on the misery and grandeur of the Chinese people...
...Sheean found Singapore "a mass of contradictions." He heard some Australian troops singing Sweet Adeline loudly and off key, and thought that their "raucous dissent with their surroundings" was "pure essence of Singapore-jazz dancing on the edge of the jungle, unthinking but offensive racial pride, a general clash of unrelated forces and a great unawareness of destiny." There was greater awareness at Mandalay, where the Flying Tigers' Colonel Claire Chennault first told Sheean about a new Japanese plane, the Zero. Chennault had reconstructed a fallen Zero, had great respect...
...November 1941 Sheean took a clipper for the U.S. More than personal history was right behind and ahead of him. At Guam, the governor told Sheean about a recent delegation of islanders who had come to express sympathy. Said the governor: "I am very grateful, but I do not know why I stand in need of sympathy." Said the islanders: "Pardon, sir, but we think you are in the same position that the Spanish Governor was in 1898." At Wake Island, the signature just before Sheean's in the station master's wife's autograph book took...