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When Winston Churchill in 1940 promised the British people "nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat," he was as much the voice of Britain as was the roar of Spitfires over the chalk cliffs of Dover. Last fortnight, when he offered the world a British way toward peace with security (TIME, March 29), he voiced the yearnings not only of his own countrymen but of all the Allied peoples. Among them were many differences, some deep and wide; but common to them all was a desire to see at least the outlines of a better world...
...backward. Our fellow-graduates across the river will be in similar situations. But the Supply Corps continues, and the Communication School plug on, and the QMC works modestly in mufti, so we'll write a post-valedictory piece since our valedictory appeared in the last issue for these who toil on towards that goal which is already ours...
...Sweat, toil, grunts, groans, ohs, and ahs will all be familiar sounds when the men of the AAF Statistical School start running over the newly completed Obstacle Course. It is for certain that the Obstacle Course is not a fat man's dream because everyone who uses the Course for the period of time they are here will be known as "Wasp-Waist Charlie...
...about spit & polish! The Highland and New Zealand divisions paraded after their ordeal in the desert as though they had come out of Wellington Barracks, and there was an air on the face of every private, a look of that just and sober pride which comes from victory after toil...
Already the U.S. had tasted, if only lightly, the blood, sweat, toil and tears of war. But the taste would become sharper as the manpower program forced men to work or fight, regardless of family ties...