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...word for U.S. expediency-a policy which the British hitherto had not warmly approved in North Africa. Political administration and policy had to be secondary to military need. Said Macmillan, explaining the continued dealings with Vichyites: "There is lots of difference between a traitor and one of the weaker brethren who chose the path of least resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conversation Piece | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Recebedon [concentration camps from which Jews have been surrendered to the Nazis]. These Jews are men, these Jewesses are women; these aliens are men and women. All is not permissible against them, against these men and women, against these fathers and mothers. They belong to mankind. They are our brethren as are so many others. No Christian can forget that. France, beloved motherland; France, who preserves in the conscience of all her children traditional respect for the human individual; chivalrous and generous France, I do not doubt that you are not responsible for these errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pray for France | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...this purpose a first-class relic of even St. Francis of Assisi would not suffice, since he was not put to death for his faith. This rule points back to the days of the early persecutions, when the Christians celebrated Mass in the catacombs at graves of their martyred brethren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saints at Saint Patrick's | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...undergraduate study-course which most nearly resembles the extravagant tales of Progressive Education in the freedom of material which it allows its section men, and in the resulting lack of rigorous or uniform training. The fastest Math A sections cover a wealth of material never approached by their slower brethren, and the final examinations of the former group are often meaningless to even the best of the students forced to pursue the slower course. In theory the sections of this introductory calculus course are never more than three days apart: actually the lag frequently amounts to more than a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weakest Link | 3/10/1942 | See Source »

...Lutherans last week came closer than their Lutheran brethren in Germany have yet come to praying for the victory of their nation. The National Lutheran Council, at its annual meeting in Pittsburgh, called on its members to be "strong in support of the Government in its fight for right and justice, ready and willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary for successful issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans for Victory | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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