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...staunch, God-fearing people of the countryside wrote a letter to Harry Truman. Then they turned elsewhere. A hundred of them trooped into the church, prayed for Bobby Colby and spoke the 40th Psalm in unison: "For innumerable evils have compassed me about. . . . They are more than the hairs of my head. . . . O Lord, make haste to help...
...Working in complete unison," MacArthur said, "the three services [ground, sea and air] inflicted the greatest disaster ever sustained by Japanese arms." To the enemy, this disaster meant the practical annihilation of 23 divisions ("or equivalents")-450,000 men, of whom 409,261 were reported killed, 9,774 prisoners. It meant also that Japan had been cut off from her conquests in Malaysia. It meant the "collapse of the enemy's imperial concept of a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere...
Well, off to Briggs Cage and we'll all do Marine Corps push-ups and deep knee bends in unison. Guerre--as Sherman so aptly puts it--is a helluva way to spend your dawning hours...
...ambulant Empire Council with a permanent secretariat to frame policies. Lord Halifax, one of Britain's senior statesmen, was closer to Australian than to Canadian Government opinion when he suggested a common policy in which the Commonwealth would speak "not by a single voice but by the unison of many...
...March 1, 1919, the funeral day of Korea's puppet Emperor, the people clad themselves in white mourning and the straw shoes of grief. Under the uneasy eyes of Jap gendarmes, 200,000 gathered in Seoul, the seaside capital. At two hours past noon, in thunderous mass unison, the people whipped forbidden banners into the air, shouted "Mansei!" ("Long Live Korea!"). In Pagoda Park a committee of 33 read a declaration: "We herewith proclaim the independence of Korea...