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Vast Land. Her energy and courage were extraordinary. She traveled thousands of miles by coach, bumped over "corduroy" roads, put up at strange cabins and hostels. She talked and listened to statesmen, slaves, Abolitionists, jailbirds, men, women & children, in the East, West and South. From New Orleans she sailed up the Mississippi on the Henry Clay to Cincinnati. She was fascinated by the "sudden and overwhelming . . . perils of this extraordinary river" where "snags," "planters," and "sawyers" might "at any moment pierce the hull." Along the huge river she saw hundreds of miles of cotton and sugar fields. "[What] vast materials...
Harriet was puzzled by the "odd mortals that wander in from the western border." These pioneer statesmen of the expanding Union, she said, "cannot be described as a class, for no one is like anybody else." But she noted: "All [have] shrewd faces, and [are] probably very fit for the business they come upon...
...nations to abandon the fiendishly inspired slaughter. ... We condemn the outcome which wicked and designing men are now planning, namely: the world-wide establishment and perpetuation of some, form of communism on the one side, or some form of nazism or fascism on the other. ... We call upon the statesmen of the world to ... bring this war to an end honorable and just...
...Perfectly disastrous," was the way one of India's leading statesmen summed up the attitude of Mahatma Gandhi in the present Indian crisis. Speaking over the Crimson Network last night, Diwan Bahadur Runganadhan, advisor to the Secretary of State for India in the British Cabinet, expressed his belief that "Gandhi is betraying the entire cause of human liberty" by his advocacy of non-violence and pacifism at this time...
...promised that she will be free and unified after the war. She has been guaranteed the abandonment of that greedy imperialistic policy by which the nations of the world have denied China control over her own resources, leaving her prone to internal unrest and invasion. By this action, Allied statesmen hope to work miracles in Chungking. They hope to give Chinese morale a tremendous shot in the arm which will stimulate offensive action against the enemy. They feel that China must be convinced that this is a war of a liberation where allies will cooperate to benefit the greatest number...