1945

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Hand, Learned. "A Pledge of Allegiance." I Am An American Day. 20 May 1945, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA.

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Jackson, Robert H. "Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal." 21 Nov. 1945, International Military Tribunal, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

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Priestley, J. B. "An Inspector Calls." Time and the Conways and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 1994, act 3. Originally performed in 1945, Comedy Theatre in Leningrad, Moscow, Russia, act 3.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1945, ch. 1.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

Describing the battle of Iwo Jima.

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Nimitz, Chester W. Statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima. c. 1945, Iwo Jima, Tokyo, Japan.

At present an iron curtain of silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies.

T. St. Vincent Troubridge

A Curtain Across Europe

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Troubridge, Thomas. "A Curtain Across Europe." Empire News, 21 Oct. 1945.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

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Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1945, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1945." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1945, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1945." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Truman, Harry S. Radio Report to the American People on the Potsdam Conference. 9 Aug. 1945, Washington, DC, USA.

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Truman, Harry S. Message to Congress on atomic energy. 3 Oct. 1945, Washington, DC, USA.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

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Jackson, Robert H. "Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal." 21 Nov. 1945, International Military Tribunal, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

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Jackson, Robert H. "Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal." 21 Nov. 1945, International Military Tribunal, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

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Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

I would not regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

Arthur Harris

In reference to the UK's continued strategic bombing of German cities during World War II.

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Harris, Arthur. Letter to Norman Bottomly. 29 Mar. 1945.