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...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...
...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
Landing Party. On the loch below an ancient clansman's castle (which is headquarters), Rangers armed to the teeth paddled toward shore in longboats. From the crags a rifle spat and a pair of Bren guns began a frenetic stutter. Water spurted up alongside the boats. A bullet shattered a paddle blade...
Instructors set off electrically controlled mines, which sent up pillars of smoke and mud among the advancing troops. Bullets from the Brens and rifles spat at their heels and cracked overhead. No man had to be told to use every bit of cover he could find...
Down through the clammy mists of Long Island Sound an oil-stained Pan American Clipper rumbled. It squatted on the water, taxied between the lights to its ramp at LaGuardia Field. By the time the engines had spat to rest, ruddy, squint-eyed Captain R. O. D. Sullivan was ready to sign the log of a historic transatlantic crossing...