Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This 57-year-old Christian Scientist, a bachelor, secretary of the Rhodes Trust since 1925. War-time secretary to David Lloyd George, and reputedly a writer of much of the Versailles Treaty, was the new British Ambassador...
Most effective critic of the peace ship's travels was a young Philadelphia Public Ledger reporter on board who brilliantly lampooned the pacifists' daily quarreling. He was William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to France...
...Gulf of Lepanto the 300 Christian ships commanded by Don John of Austria struck the Turkish fleet in 1571, enfolded it and then pierced it, destroyed it except for 40 vessels that made a desperate heroic escape...
...said, "is a place where a small band of ferocious men rose from the depths to dictatorship, there to take away the guarantee of life, law and liberty." To associate British democracy with Nazi methods meant the destruction of all that the Empire ever meant: "That power which burns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward progress with barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and pleasure from perverted persecution and uses the threat of murderous force-that power cannot ever be a trusted friend of British democracy...
...entirely cut off from the rest of the world, and at one time the U. P.'s Paris bureau had to telephone London by way of New York. Five newspapers had their own staffs abroad: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the Chicago Tribune and News, the Christian Science Monitor. With the press services, they wrote the war news that the U. S. read last week...