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...factors are involved-the government military position below the Great Wall and U.S. aid. If both are strong or positive, the government will fight not only to hold on but to reclaim all Manchuria. If either is weak or negative, the government will still fight to the uttermost. But if both are weak and negative, then full retreat from Manchuria may well be necessary...
...many years, British journalists had considered an assignment to the U.S.-the "sphere of the fabulous"-as the uttermost exile. Willmott Lewis did more than any other man to make it a prize. Working a little above and behind the area of spot news, he aimed at "discovering American policy." To that kind of job he brought sound scholarship, a facile tongue, a pen that turned out discursive and thoughtful prose, ideal for London's "Thunderer." He became friendly, but never too friendly, with men who made U.S. history, a subject he knew well enough to assess them against...
...Iron fields of craters . . . rolling walls made of fire and steel and plains of the dead, over which red storms drive. . . . Everything which causes feeling, from appalling physical pain to the uttermost joy of victory, is melted together here into a burning unity. . . . Song, prayer, rejoicing, cursing and weeping-what more can we wish...
...laws of these liberated countries and of the free governments which will be erected therein. Let those who have hitherto not imbrued their hands with innocent blood beware, lest they join the ranks of the guilty, for most assuredly the three Allied powers will pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth. German criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical localization will be punished by joint decision of the Allies...
...vengeance. "No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion," continued the President, "the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory." At this, the biggest cheers of the day. "We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. . . . We will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare . . . a state of war. . . ." The President left the House. Members began roaring impatiently: "Vote! Vote! Vote!" The Speaker gaveled for order...