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...Burma police), he has the courage to affirm that an imperialist like Rudyard Kipling is likely to speak more sanely about imperial affairs than are his liberal critics. Finally, while remaining a skeptical iconoclast, Orwell can insist that "high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic...
...blood and tears, the sweat, toil and untold misery caused by this disastrous war have not taught the British Empire that its worst enemy is its own shortsightedness, then the Empire is not worth saving at any rate, at least not with the blood of American youth. After all, when the Japanese enemy came, none of the natives risked their lives for the Empire, nor for the Dutch, who are, as Colonial Empires go, similarly behind the times. How different was the story in the Philippines...
...unfilled dugouts of the civil war house the jobless, the ragged, the hungry, the impoverished. On the great estates landless peasants toil for four pesetas (36?) a day. The black market thrives and bureaucrats and party men take fat cuts...
Journey to Moscow. When war began to engulf the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt called on Harriman's services more & more, finally sent him to London to coordinate the vast operations of Lend-Lease. In October 1943, after months of harrying toil and travel, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Russia...
...death toil of alumni in this war was half again as great as that of the last war. The World War 1 death figures, not including those listed as missing, totaled...