Word: warriorism
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...during the night and early hours of the morning the first of a series of landings in force upon the European continent has taken place. So far, the commanders . . . report that everything is proceeding according to plan. And what a plan!" Several hours later, he was an even happier warrior: "There is very much less loss than we expected. . . . Many dangers . . . are behind us. This operation is proceeding in a thoroughly satisfactory manner...
...enemy turned old friend, as an Empire figure with a deep feeling for Britain, as a world figure with a heart proud of Britain's greatness, a mind ever probing into Britain's and the Empire's weaknesses. In his versatility this statesman, warrior, philosopher, orator, scientist, author had a quality of the Elizabethans. Britons thought of him as South Africa's late Governor General Sir Patrick Duncan had called him in the anxious days of 1941: "A great rock in a weary world...
...honored ranks of the warrior classes last week were admitted the little people of Japan, the ragged and hungry factory workers. It was an admission that this was total war, and all Japan was told that Bushido was not an exclusive spiritual cloak for those who fight; it was also for those who produce. Said Tokyo radio: "Step by step and moment by moment [the enemy] is approaching our mainland. . . . To support the spirit and follow the souls of the 4,500 men [on Tarawa and Makin] who preferred death to dishonor is the best way to fight...
...Price of Peace. In 1938 the old warrior fell into a sudden coma, ill with rheumatism, arthritis, uremic poisoning. He was 78. The newspapers trotted out their ready-made obits. But two months later he showed up at his son's wedding. In 1939 he made his last pilgrimage to France...
...Creek Park. He threatened to move to a hotel. Major General Shelley Marietta, head of Walter Reed, talked him out of it. He refused to pose for a picture, even at the request of the War Department. To hell with the War Department. He was living out an old warrior's life...