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...Progress is War as it appeared to a trained and disciplined British officer, winner of the Military Cross, a poet whose mind was filled with thousands of unpoetic, practical problems: getting shoes for his men, remembering the amount of water necessary for a company in a front line trench, memorizing pages of official instruction on trench warfare between bombardments. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer told how Sassoon (called Sherston in the narrative) revolted against this routine, refused to return to the front, demanded that he be court-martialed because he could not free his mind of the conviction that...
...type of security, a security which is dynamic, not static-a security which rests in intelligence not in forts. And in the fact that intelligence must be combined with aviation I find some cause for hope. It requires more intellect to operate an airplane than to dig a trench or shoot a rifle...
cists enters the novel. Mary's husband, turning from a conservative to a radical under the pressure of economic distress, gets into a dispute over the tithe, barricades his house, digs a trench to prevent the tithe-collector from taking away his stock. Shots are fired, mysterious figures slink through the fog, the fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that...
Ubiquitous in U. S. parks and public buildings is the conventional War memorial doughboy with trench helmet and bayonet, charging eternally in bronze or marble. Last week an arrestingly different conception for a U. S. War memorial was unveiled at St. Paul, Minn. Startled citizens and American Legionaries got their first look at a huge, brooding Indian, towering in 55 tons of cream-white Mexican onyx 36 feet above a slowly rotating pedestal in the black marble concourse of St. Paul's new City Hall. One great hand held the Pipe of Peace. The other was raised...
...Robertson, 52, recovered rapidly. Alfred Scadding, 44, had a bad case of trench foot. Dr. Robertson promised to write the story of their adventure, the profits to go, first, for Scadding's care, second, to the Canadian Red Cross to aid in future mine disasters. Proud, as was every Briton, of the endurance of the victims and the pluck of the rescuers, King Edward VIII cabled Lord Tweedsmuir, his Governor General in Ottawa: "I am thrilled with admiration. ... I should be glad to have further news of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Scadding...