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...their conference in Washington, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were guided by a great fact: success in Russia and victory in Africa had guaranteed the division of the enemy...
...Such sweeps became the pattern for his fleet. Whenever his ships found Italians, they whipped them. On one occasion Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville on the Nelson knocked the Italians and escaped with nothing worse than a scare from an Italian torpedo, which missed. Flashed A.B.C.: "Flag to Nelson. Success of your operation should console you for nearly getting slap in belly with wet fish." When Admiral Somerville was given a second knighthood, A.B.C. signaled "Congratulations. Twice a knight. And at your...
...dubious success of our own education seems to me to call for great humility. . . . That raises the question of the extent to which mass political behavior is influenced by education. We have to ask ourselves how Germans became Nazis in the first place. The millions of youth who pushed Hitler to power were not taught Hitlerism in their schools and universities. . . . The fact is that what students were taught in their schools did not conform to the reality which they saw in life. . . . Democracy failed to provide . . . a satisfactory social and economic existence. . . . Hitler merely canalized the almost universal discontent...
Says famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley in the introduction: "Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science. . . . It is not luck but logic which in the present and future will win-the careful and logical consideration of what effects come from specific causes, what are the natural reasons behind events, what are the processes required to adapt nature to the material and spiritual advantages of mankind...
Just as failure and defeat had in the past done much to aggravate inter-Allied and interservice frictions, now success was furthering cooperation. Bigger challenges and greater victories than Tunisia will both depend on and confirm this new amity...