In War As In Life, It Is

Better To Dare Mighty Things And Fail Than To Live In A Grey Twilight Where There Is Neither Victory Nor Defeat.

The Times Is Speechless, And Takes Three Columns To Express Its Speechlessness.

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days.

The Most Dangerous Moment Of The War, And The One Which Caused Me The Greatest Alarm, Was When The Japanese Fleet Was Heading For Ceylon And The Naval Base There. The Capture Of Ceylon, The Consequent Control Of The Indian Ocean, And The Possibility At The Same Time Of A German Conquest Of Egypt Would Have Closed The Ring And The Future Would Have Been Black.

Democracy Is An Awful Way To Run A Country, But It's The Best System We Have.