By Swallowing Evil Words Unsaid, No One

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.

May It Not Also Be That The Cause Of Civilization Itself Will Be Defended By The Skill And Devotion Of A Few Thousand Airmen? There Never Has Been, I Suppose, In All The World, In All The History Of War, Such An Opportunity For Youth. The Knights Of The Round Table, The Crusaders, All Fall Back Into The Past.

I Am Sorry To Have Made Such A Long Speech, But I Did Not Have Time To Write A Shorter One.

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.

I Am A Sporting Man. I Always Like To Give Trains And Aeroplanes A Fair Chance Of Getting Away.