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After spending World War II "building a long chain of chainless latrines from Calcutta to Cassino," Australian Engineer Ben Carlin was understandably anxious to get away from it all. And the amphibious jeep he saw rusting on a deserted U.S. Army Air Force field in Bengal gave him an idea. "You know, Mac," he told a friend, "with a bit of titivation you could go around the world in one of those things...
...past, France's native troops have written a proud record for gallantry and their devotion to France. The dashing Spahis helped liberate Paris. The Tirailleurs Algeriens (the troops in the small cement fortress) fought at Monte Cassino and in Indo-China. Barefooted, pillaging Moroccan Goumiers were General Augustin Guillaume's crack force in Italy. Altogether, 100,000 of France's 400,000 troops in North Africa are Moslems. Said a French lieutenant: "This is their country, and the rebels are their countrymen. How can we trust them? All we can do is pack them tight with French...
...Boom. The Maryknoll success story typifies but does not tell the whole story of monastic life in mid-20th century. From the time (circa 530) that a young Italian nobleman, Benedict of Nursia, smashed the statue of Apollo on Monte Cassino and founded his famed abbey, the monastery has been the heart of Christendom. Even after the Middle Ages monasteries continued to dominate religious life, provided much of the fire of reform within the Catholic Church. But with the 18th century the monastery was relegated to a dark corner. More devastating than the French Revolution's "freeing" of nuns...
...Benedict was the spiritual founder of all monasteries. On the summit of Italy's Monte Cassino, 14 centuries ago, where pagans had raised a shrine to Apollo. Benedict gathered around him a group of fellow Roman Catholics to withdraw from the world and yet be a part of it. He wrote them a rule of useful work and communal worship and solitary contemplation that has been a model of monastic discipline everywhere and ever since...
Last week, as they have for centuries of pestilence and peace and rumor of the world's destruction, the Benedictines were busy building their hives of holy industry around the world. On Monte Cassino, St. Benedict's greatest monastery, laid waste in World War II for the fourth time in its history, was about rebuilt again. And on 2,500 rolling acres at Collegeville, Minn., about 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis, work was getting under way on a Benedictine abbey which the editor of Liturgical Arts magazine has called "truly a milestone in the evolution of the architecture...