You who are farther away see the whole picture.

We, for the moment, see only so much of it as you might cover with your two hands; but this advantage we do have--that we see the brush strokes, the color shadings, the infinite small detail, whereas you view its wider effects.
And then, having seen it, when we try to put our story into words--when we try to set down on paper the unspeakable horror of it--we realize what a futile, incomplete thing the English language is.
This present day in Aix-la-Chapelle will be, I assume, much like all the other days I have spent here.

An hour ago small official bulletins, sanctioned by the Berlin War Office, were posted in the windows of the shops and on the front of the public buildings; and small groups gathered before them to read the news.
If it was good news they took it calmly.

If it was not so good, still they took it calmly.

If it was outright bad news I think they would still take it calmly.