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...named Professor Stearns. My first assignment was to write a description of our rooms. I had the great honor and distinction of having my little offering cited by him as an example of the type of thing he was hoping to get, largely because I used the word 'smite,' as in the phrase 'something smites...
...large cities, and were preparing variations on their attack pattern. Tons of British pathfinder bombs had been shipped to the Marianas and would soon permit the 21st Bomber Command to bomb at night with greater precision. U.S. Army officers announced that fleets of 1,000 planes would soon smite Japan. Tokyo warned its medium and small-size cities to expect the worst. The big bombers were not the only planes that struck Japan. Kyushu Island, whence enemy planes attack Okinawa, was worked over for several days by U.S. fighters from carrier decks and land bases...
...This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation now has a 'line' and omits whatever does not fit the 'line...
...else to fling such texts at the British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...
Final Warning No. -. The Allies had not yet given the word to the conquered to rise up and smite their oppressor: that word probably would not come until Allied troops crossed the Channel. But Russia, ready to start a new drive which presumably will be geared with the invasion, joined the U.S. and Britain in one more stern warning to Germany's collaborators. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland were told to pull out immediately, or share in the full disaster of Axis defeat...