It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.