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...cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England. Authoritarian though theocracy was, moral martinets though they sometimes became, the Puritans sailed their ships into the open seas. They cultivated their moral strength like athletes training, and they used that strength out of doors, in the world, as statesmen and soldiers. "We are still drawing upon the reserves of spiritual vigor which they accumulated...
...Germany" - his 20-year pact meant that he had brought France from 1939's mass of military wreckage and mobs of frightened fugitives back to her old standing as a No. 1 European power. And he had made himself one of the new Europe's most potent statesmen...
...holds China's No. 2 post. All Asia knows him as "T.V." -the initials that stand for Tse-Veng (Scholarly Son), the name given him by his stern Methodist father. All Asia knows him, too, as one of the Far East's big, progressive-minded, dynamic statesmen...
Future historians will fill yards of bookshelves dividing the credit for the invasion success among the Allied generals, admirals and statesmen, and the discredit among Hitler, Rommel and Rundstedt. It is generally agreed already that the Germans held back their reserves too long, and their Fifteenth Army north of the Seine until too late, because Eisenhower cleverly kept them worried about a second invasion in Pas de Calais. Bradley was the line smasher as well as quarterback for the Allied operations (as he is now). He did not fumble, and he invariably capitalized on the errors of the enemy...
When Allied statesmen are sitting around the peace table replanning the boundaries of the world, the chances are good that they will be using maps and globes prepared at Harvards Institute of Geographical Exploration. Founded in 1931 by Alexander H. Rice '98, professor of Geography and a noted explorer of the Amazon, the Institute has largely devoted its energies to the war during the last several years...