K Sutherland Quotes

Ever since, in the U.K. they banned smoking in public places, I've never enjoyed a drinks party ever again. And the reason, I only worked out just the other day, is when you go to a drinks party and you stand up and you hold a glass of red wine and you talk endlessly to people, you don't actually want to spend all the time talking. It's really, really tiring. Sometimes you just want to stand there silently, alone with your thoughts. Sometimes you just want to stand in the corner and stare out of the window. Now the problem is, when you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a fucking philosopher.

Turtle and Kinkajou, flying in the sky, Getting all K-I-S-S-Y —

Pearl Harbor conference are interesting, it is apparent that the final decisions in regard to the Marianas had already been made by the Joint Chiefs, and the Truk-by-pass decision would await the results of the carrier strikes. General MacArthur continued his opposition to the Central Pacific route as late as February 1944, when be sent his deputy, Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, USA, to Washington in a desperate effort to convince the Joint Chiefs that both Truk and the Marianas should be by-passed and that the impetus should be along the New Guinea-Mindanao axis of advance. General Sutherland had been in Washington but a short time when he found it necessary to advise MacArthur that the die was, indeed, cast: the Marianas operation was a certainty; the

Soy muy consciente de que la palabra propiedad ha sido definida en nuestro tiempo por la corrupción de los grandes capitalistas. Se podría pensar, cuando se oye hablar a la gente, que los Rothschild y los Rockefeller estarían del lado de la propiedad. Pero obviamente son enemigos de la propiedad, porque son enemigos de sus propias limitaciones. No quieren su propia tierra, sino la de otros. Cuando retiran el límite de su vecino, también están retirando el suyo. Un hombre que ama un pequeño terreno triangular debería amarlo porque es triangular; cualquiera que destruya la forma, dándole más tierra, es un ladrón que ha robado un triángulo. Un hombre con la verdadera poesía de la posesión desea ver la pared en la que su jardín se une con el jardín de Smith; el seto donde su granja toca la de Brown. No puede ver la forma de su propia tierra a menos que vea los bordes de la de su vecino. Es una negación de la propiedad el hecho de que el duque de Sutherland tenga que poseer las granjas de todo un condado; igual que sería la negación del matrimonio que tuviese a todas nuestras esposas en un solo harén.

Sergeant Gavin Sutherland,

It is little remembered that there was a second Pearl Harbor. Ten hours after being alerted to the first, Japanese planes struck Clark Field in the Philippines, destroying one hundred and two planes, including all but three of General Brereton’s B-17s. He had pleaded with MacArthur to attack Japanese air bases in Formosa. MacArthur replied through his aide, Major General Richard K. Sutherland, that he had been ordered not to make “the first overt act.” What was Pearl Harbor if not an overt act? Brereton demanded. While the debate went on, the Japanese, at first delayed by fog, hit near high noon, finding MacArthur’s planes nearly lined up in rows like the shooting gallery it was. “What the hell!” roared Air Corps chief Hap Arnold when he heard about it. • • • • • At 1458 in Honolulu, Tadeo Fuchikami finally made his delivery of Marshall’s alert to the “Commanding General” at Fort Shafter. It was thrown in a wastebasket without carrying out the request to pass it on to the Navy. “For a while I thought the Day of Infamy had been my fault,” Fuchikami mused many years later. Then I realized I was just one of the sands of time.” The Pearl Harbor attack had left eighteen warships sunk or damaged, including five battleships, and one hundred and eighty-eight planes destroyed. The raid killed two thousand four hundred and three Americans. The Japanese lost twenty-nine planes and fifty-five fliers. Kido butai returned home with three hundred and twenty-four surviving planes.