The United Nations Was Set Up Not

Baldwin Thought Europe Was A Bore, And Chamberlain Thought It Was Only A Greater Birmingham.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril...it Did Not Take The Form Of Flaring Battles And Glittering Achievements, It Manifested Itself Through Statistics, Diagrams, And Curves Unknown To The Nation, Incomprehensible To The Public.

There Is Required For The Composition Of A Great Commander Not Only Massive Common Sense And Reasoning Power, Not Only Imagination, But Also An Element Of Legerdemain, An Original And Sinister Touch, Which Leaves The Enemy Puzzled As Well As Beaten.

I Had Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Got Drunk - And I Would Have Liked To Have The Boozing Scholars Of The Universities Wheeled Into Line And Properly Chastised For Their Squalid Misuse Of What I Must Ever Regard As A Gift Of The Gods.

It May Well Be That We Shall By A Process Of Sublime Irony Have Reached A State In This Story Where Safety Will Be The Sturdy Child Of Terror, And Survival The Twin Brother Of Annihilation.