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Large Patterns:
"with Australia in the middle and at the top. They were astonished because that’s where Australia really is and they said that none of the other maps showed the world the way it really was. They said that’s the way the world really looks, but I told them to assemble it for Churchill with England at the center…
"At about that time Henry Luce asked me out to dinner in Greenwich where he wanted me to show my map and talk about it to the guests. In the middle of my explanation he said that for the first time in his life he had found a man (me) who was his exact opposite. So I told him that was a compliment. Luce was certain that all big patterns were introduced by man. He correctly recognized-- but disassociated himself from-- my own view that large patterns are introduced by nature and only discovered by man.
“Just before the war Henry Luce once told me that the U.K. was sending its archives to Ottawa for safe-keeping. He told me this in great confidence because he said I didn’t know the war was coming. I said of course I knew the war was coming;”
