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...Armageddon. The Catholic Church last week seemed further than ever from accepting leadership in a political campaign against either Socialists or Communists. When Kazimierz Papee, Ambassador from the London Polish Government, appeared with Polish soldiers at the Vatican, the Pope addressed him by his name, but not his title. Osservatore Romano failed to mention him in its report of the audience, indicating Papal recognition of the fact that the London Polish Government had been replaced by one made in Moscow. Vatican officials said that "though the Holy See was filled with benevolence toward Polish troops . . . and wished for a completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: New Europe | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...looks as if humanity is moving inexorably toward Armageddon and into the limbo of forgotten things, an oblivion of its own making. Only the remnant now left of what Mr. Wilson called the "enlightened conscience of mankind" can save the situation. Unless prompt action is taken it will again be "too little and too late," and this time destiny plays for keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1945 | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...considerable turmoil," and that Nazi communications were "in a very sticky state" from Allied air attacks. But he added a quiet warning: the Germans had evidently massed the heaviest weight of armor ever wielded in western Europe. There was no doubt about it: the battle ahead would be an Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Meeting in Normandy | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...will come of evil; a man whose stake is in the status quo, he instinctively makes out a case for appeasement. No figure of real power himself, Alex yet remains the spokesman for the official blunders, delays, defections that made Munich no terminus but merely the last stop before Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...atmosphere of tensity pervades London. The Allied forces are gathering to crush the Axis in Europe, and the Axis knows it. Germany does not know the hour, the date, the place. But while she waits for Armageddon behind her "invulnerable" ground defenses, invasion is already coming through the sky-from Africa in the south, from Russia in the east, from Britain in the west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WAR OF NERVES: The Proper Moment | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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