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Furthermore, much of the new peace time equipment would have to be imported, "and it would be a short-sighted policy not to assist." Therefore the "war exchange" tax on all non-Empire imports (85% of them from the U.S.) would be abolished forthwith.
"Fear, panic, foolish short-sighted action--thus runs the well-known sequence of words describing the road of human folly. The reserve pattern--courage, cold examination, intelligent farsighted action--is admittedly all too rare, but is always available as an alternative even for the sons of Adam. Listen for the...
¶ A fighter pilot radioed that he was going down in a small bay on the Japanese coast. A PBY Dumbo received his message, sighted him, but got hit by several Jap antiaircraft shells. The Dumbo retreated and radioed for fighter cover. While the fighters strafed the Jap gun emplacement...
"My right eye gone!" a friend heard him murmur wonderingly. "Closed forever on all God's beauty." God's beauty was spread wider for John Muir than for most men. He absorbed and reveled in it as his vital element. With passionate volubility and in sinewy prose, he...
Far out in the Pacific, on the late afternoon of July 3, the U.S. destroyer Murray sighted the Japanese hospital ship Taka-sago Maru, bore down on her and ordered her to heave to. In two small boats, a party of 26 heavily armed Americans, led by the Murray'...