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Yesterday, September 20th: Whilst I could still get petrol I raced 76 miles to spend a day and night with my own child. Did I speed! At least when I could, for everywhere on roads and country lanes, one was constantly meeting the troops, lorries, vans, tanks, and fatigue parties...
Actually the nearest colliery is nine miles away [from Cardiff], and the great docks and ironworks are concentrated on the seaboard, whilst the purity and clarity of the air of the city itself and its hinterland are invariably a source of amazement to visitors...
...Professor Lips points out, North America and Australia have been the only continents actually wrested from savages by the white race, which in South America has been mostly absorbed and in India and China repelled from all but a few footholds. Most of Africa is virtually uninhabitable by whites. "Whilst the white man keeps on thinking that his civilization is slowly conquering peoples and countries for him, and actually, even quite recently, new blobs of color on the political map do signify that new colonial empires are being founded in Africa, the real truth is that the chain...
...WHILST TWO GREAT PEOPLES FLY AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS. . . . Seven thousand miles away Chinamen are dying. Seven thousand miles away Japs are lying on hospital cots-their broken bodies wracked with torture from shrapnel fragments and machine gun lead...
...company, acting in conjunction with the Anchor Line, has an excellent range of first-class seating accommodation, ranging originally from $17.50 up to $105, of which, however, only seats from $46 upwards now remain. Whilst these seats are primarily designed to meet the needs of passengers traveling to Glasgow in the Anchor Line vessels, a certain surplus is available for the public...