Word: christiane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christian de Castries, great field soldier, was scarcely a fanatic, nor were his hard-bitten French noncoms, or his Germans of the Foreign Legion, or his newly trained Vietnamese. All of these men, from the most widely disparate backgrounds, found-without fanaticism, brainwashing or Communist terror-as much of what the soldier needs as any Red ever showed. What they did not have-and the Communists do-is direction from above, the kind of direction that comes from the will to victory...
...Last Days. In the final 72 hours, a tropical rainstorm lashed the doomed 10,000-man garrison. Trenches sagged and crumbled in the blinding rain. Latrines filled and festered. The water supply turned foul. French Commanding General Christian de Castries checked his three surviving strongpoints-Claudine in the west, Eliane in the east, isolated Isabelle three miles to the south. All was quiet, save for the rain, and the occasional crack of a Communist rifle way off somewhere in the hills. That night, De Castries summoned his staff to Junon, his command post, for one last chivalric rite of battle...
Early this year it was announced that the Evangelicals would not be represented at the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches in August (as they had been at the Amsterdam Assembly in 1948). In a letter to the Christian Century, Evangelical Moderator Hadjiantoniou last week explained why. "We are facing just now a real state of persecution on the .part of the Greek Orthodox Church," wrote Hadjiantoniou. "What makes the situation still more sad and perplexing is that the initiative in this has been taken, in part at least, by people closely connected with the ecumenical movement, such...
Wrote the Christian Century: "The World Council had better find out whether [the charges] are true or false, and take appropriate action . . . if it hopes to have the slightest moral authority when speaking on denials of religious liberty in Colombia, in India, or anywhere else...
Newlyweds and oldsters approaching their golden-wedding anniversaries, bankers, soldiers, industrialists, doctors and union organizers listened again and again to Father Schmiedeler's even flow of words, reminding them of the spiritual meanings of their marriages. "Christian marriage," he said, "is a grace-giving institution and a sacrament of the Church in the same sense that the priesthood is a sacrament . . . Marriage is a symbol of the union of Christ with his followers, and the Christian family is a replica of Christ and the Church . . . The family which loves God, which serves God, which is in eternal union with...