Brazil has in many ways a very robust economy, |
But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were. |
By the middle of the next century, China will be a great capitalist economy, ... I don't think anything can happen in the next few weeks or months to change that. |
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case. |
Everybody, I would say, if you could love anybody he was loved by everybody because he had such concern for his soldiers and he was so able in getting them to do what he wanted them to do, and they did it instinctively and because his orders were so clear and concise, and I think that - I hope - that rubbed off onto me when I was CO. |
He was sold out for the October trip by June. |
I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all. |
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. |
I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong. |
I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle |
I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle |
It has a very strong corporate sector, a very sensible government and Brazil is a place that is going to do extremely well over the medium term after this rough patch is out of the way. |
It was very, very cold and there were a number of injuries, self-inflicted injuries, because people just couldn't take the cold. |
Look, from a professional soldier's point of view, we were very eager to get there and to do the job that we were trained for. |
Our fish hits the table within two minutes of being cooked, the chips within one minute. |