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to acquire it one had to disregard all superficial appearances. Above all, one had to assume that the beatings-up, the butt-end blows and even worse forms of brutality through which the Japanese mentality made itself felt were all as meaningless as the show of ponderous dignity which was Colonel Nicholson’s favourite weapon, wielded as a mark of British superiority.
Um die Dinge in diesem Licht zu sehen, mußte man den Rippenstößen, den Kolbenschlägen und anderen Gewalttätigkeiten, in denen die japanische Seele sich Luft machte, ebenso jede reale Bedeutung absprechen wie der gußeisernen Art, in der Oberst Nicholson seine Würde zur Schau trug – eine Haltung, die er gern als Waffe benutzte, um die britische Überlegenheit darzutun.
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