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“the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda,”
“In reading the lives of great men,” he later wrote in a diary, “I found that the first victory they won was over themselves . . . Self-discipline with all of them came first.”
He wrote of love—how like war, it meant always doing the right thing, of putting the cause before oneself.
There is no substitute for a fact. When the facts are known, reasonable men do not disagree with respect to them.” The committee set out on
That first firebombing of Tokyo resulted in the largest death toll of any air raid, in any war ever, up to that point—an estimated 100,000 Japanese, likely more.
As of 1944, 7.5 percent of war production jobs were held by African Americans, while their overall percentage of the nation’s population at the time was 9.8 percent.
ALWAYS DO RIGHT. THIS WILL GRATIFY SOME PEOPLE AND ASTONISH THE REST.
According to the American Institute of Public Opinion, over 80 percent of Americans believed the United States should join this “world organization with police power to maintain world peace.”
Truman could now see the shattered balcony where the Nazi leader had so often addressed his brainwashed followers.
“That’s what happens,” Truman said to Leahy and Byrnes, “when a man overreaches himself. I never saw such destruction. I don’t know whether they learned anything from it or not.”
