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...English. He admired their eloquence; sometimes he even applauded, but he regarded their speeches generally as so much windy verbiage. Though his ministry was corrupt, he was personally honest, went into debt, and wept in the House of Commons over his poverty. When he heard the news of Yorktown, he staggered as though shot, cried: "Oh God, it is all over...
...knows his destiny, nor does any nation. The destiny that lay beyond Yorktown and Appomattox and Manila Bay, that lay mockingly behind a slogan ("Make the World Safe for Democracy") at Belleau Wood, took a new and decisive turn last year. It was in 1947 that the U.S. people, not quite realizing the full import of their act, perhaps not yet mature enough to accept all its responsibilities, took upon their shoulders the leadership of the world...
When Boston's ersatz Paul Revere gallops off with the cry "The Redcoats are coming!" at the Patriots Day celebration Saturday afternoon, the alarm will contain more truth than fiction for the first time since the Yorktown surrender...
...footnote to your article, "The Colonel Takes a Trip" [TIME, Jan. 27], in which you describe the monument commemorating the decisive battle for our independence at Yorktown, Virginia . . . the statue [of Liberty] which tops the marble shaft is no longer what your researcher would have you believe. In fact, the "arms outstretched," as well as the head once no doubt held high, have vanished having been struck by lightning some years...
...wonder what kind of monument we have at Yorktown, Va.* I do not suppose there is any in Tory New York...