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...French used to call Metz La Pucelle ("the Virgin"). Up to last week this historic Lorraine stronghold had never been taken by storm. Attila's Huns destroyed it in 451 A.D., but there were no Roman legions there to defend it. It was still in possession of the French when they surrendered in 1870, of the Germans in the autumn of 1918. The French claim that quislings gave it up in 1940. Last week, for the first time, Metz gave way under attack-by Americans...
...Pontiff No. 262 in a prelatical line which includes the Apostle Peter (whom, Catholics believe, Christ commanded to establish the Roman Catholic Church); Leo the Great (who saved Rome from Attila's sacking Huns); Lucius III (who instigated the Inquisition); Innocent III (who exercised effective political control over all Italy and much of Europe, bringing the temporal power of the Papacy to its high-water mark); Leo X (a worldly, cultivated gentleman who excommunicated Martin Luther and proved incapable of dealing with the problems of the Reformation); Alexander VI (a Borgia, who practiced simony and nepotism and failed...
Officials and merchants of these British and Australian islands fled in January when an enemy warship was reported near. The bishop stayed put. Soon a Jap seaplane swooped down to take possession and Bishop Wade, like Pope Leo I going out to meet Attila, stalked down the beach in his full pontifical robes to confront the startled aviators and demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with...
Precedents there were aplenty. In 70 A.D. Roman legions under Titus destroyed Jerusalem, slaughtered 1,100,000, sent 97,000 into slavery. Attila the Hun sacked and burned all of Northern Italy, spared Rome only after Pope Leo I appeared in the Hun camp with an eloquent plea for the Holy City. Genghis Khan butchered the people of Samarkand, razed the city...
...have books that they haven't. But carrying this principle to its logical conclusion, it will soon be discovered that the undergraduates of that place on Shepard Street need Widener books. And so, from one table they will expand to two, then to the whole alcove, finally, like Attila's hordes, they will engulf the entire reading room. This female group, untouched as it is by the blessings of civilizations, knows no moral law but the principle of expediency. Who knows by what infamous intrigue, what ruthless machinations, even this privilege was gained by them...