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Probably in all our history no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese. Emotions forgotten since our most savage Indian wars were reawakened.
Allan Nevins -
History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
Allan Nevins
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History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.
Allan Nevins -
The former allies have blundered in the past by offering Germany too little, and offering even that too late, until finally Nazi Germany had become a menace to all mankind.”
Allan Nevins -
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
Allan Nevins