Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Niemoller on Nazis. Whether or not it was "treason" for Pastor Niemoller to preach, write and talk as he has against the Nazi system, his published sermons* are undoubtedly among the most controversial ever preached. In Germany the Nazis claim to object only to what they call "Negative Christianity," claim to approve "Positive Christianity" (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Pastor Niemoller, in perhaps his most controversial sermon, boldly accused the Nazis of taking in this matter today exactly the line the Jews took when Christ was alive...
...having arms or ammunitions to surrender them to His Majesty's Government. In morning papers, Rumanians read that shortly before dawn the Orthodox Church's venerable Patriarch Miron Cristea, 69, had been sworn in by King Carol, 44, as Premier of what His Majesty was pleased to call a "National Concentration Government...
...sonorous phrases his purpose- to write a vast work in which modern French society would be the hero. He might be compared with the builder of a city who lays out his streets in advance, builds one house beside the other methodically, pausing from time to time to call attention to the increase in population. But in building his city of Jefferson, Miss, in six novels and three books of short stories, William Faulkner has followed a far more devious path. In effect, he has put down one street and then built houses miles away from it. As the same...
...seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter may, anywhere, any time, startle any man into his creative senses. Into the roomy holds of these seagoing truths Poet Pound crowds everybody and everything he most abhors or admires, pops the stowaways on deck whenever they call for an airing...
...crisis, its first effect would be to (1 blockade the coasts of Japan and China, 2 withdraw all American soldiers, sailors and marines from China, 3 stop shipments of arms from this country to Japan and China, 4 stop all trade between this nation and China and Japan, 5 call a conference of neutrals to deal with the crisis...