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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...tanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con-... ... a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I speak French and Italian with incred- ible atrocity, and am an extreme Pacifist. I hate sold... ...ces in evidence. I am the least collecting of men, but I have brought home Italian cartridges, Austrian cartridges, the fuse of an Austrian shell, a b... ...n cartridges, Austrian cartridges, the fuse of an Austrian shell, a broken Italian bayonet, and a note that is worth half a franc within the confines ... ...st camp. From those stories we came to the question whether the uneducated Italians were more su- perstitious than the uneducated English; the king th... ... aviation would destroy de- mocracy, because he said only aristocrats make aviators. (He was a man of good family.) With a duke or so in my mind I ask... ...periences of this war have seemed to carry out this hypothesis. The German aviators will not as a class stand up to those of the Allies. They are not ... ...arance of the air. Such German machines as are up are put down by fighting aviators. These last fly high; in the clear blue of the early morning they ... ...CAPE E E E E 1 1 1 1 1 I SAW RATHER MORE of the British than of the French aviators because of the vileness of the weather when I visited the latter. ...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...he year 1898, within ten years, that is to say, of the time when the first aviators were fairly on the wing. He tells us how he sat at his desk in his... .... ‘Signal that first,’ he said, ‘while we look.’ They were joined by their aviators for the search, and all six men began a hunt that was necessarily ... ...ow but the king and his adviser and three heavily faithful attendants; the aviators who waited now in the midday blaze with their bomb-carrying machin... ...y saw the black shape of a man. ‘Any one here?’ he asked, speaking with an Italian accent. The king broke into a cold perspiration. Then Pestovitch an... ... barn with the dreadful bombs still packed upon them. A couple of score of aviators held the yard, and outside a few peasants stood in a little group ...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...Clayton National School, for example, inscribed in old English lettering, “Italian T ravel Pictures, by the Rev. E. B. Gabbitas.” For this it seemed h... ...across the frontier near Belfort nearly to the Rhine… . The Hungarian, the Italian peasant, yawned and thought the morning dark, and turned over to fa... ... came upon me, and when at last horse riding palled, I went and joined the aviators who practised soaring upon aeroplanes beyond Horsemarden Hill… . B...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

... but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fictional explorers and aviators. Her days were swift, and she knew that in her folly of running aw... ...own for the try-out of a play, the house where Lincoln died, the cloaks of Italian officers, the barrows at which clerks buy their box-lunches at noon...

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