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...preacher seeks a sermon, any statesman a goal, any thinker a philosophy, they (and all the rest of us) have before us the highest purpose of all in leading the inevitable fight against the last barrier that separates us from true universal brotherhood. Not nationalism itself, but its breeding ground -ignorance, stupidity, greed, traditionalism -are the enemies of the people...
...Brigadier Kenneth W. D. Strong, at 43 one of the British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers of his regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; he has been accused of wearing plaid pajamas. His deputy: U.S. Colonel Thomas E. Roderick, onetime executive officer of the U.S. War Department's G-2 in Washington...
...significant that the righteous [in Argentina] use the same word to describe a loose woman and a revolutionary political thinker-"liberal...
Simple Row. Chennault, worker of tactical and strategic miracles with no more than a faint start of an air force, is an airman, through & through. Probably the Air Forces' most original thinker, he has chosen the unorthodox ways of soldiering and fighting that airmen love, and they have worked. In the last five months Chennault's pilots have destroyed 300-400 planes with a loss of eight pilots, fewer than 20 planes. China's debt to him and his American Volunteer Group is that, with the help of China's army, they saved Chungking, later saved...
...late great William Butler Yeats was a poet of genius, a man of parts (of which few sold at popular prices), a deep-sea diver in the lugubrious pearl-gulfs of the occult, a political thinker to set men's teeth on edge...