Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...external foes of the sort Bishop Dibelius has been meeting head on in more recent years. In 1945 he dared to confront the wasting, undramatic and wearying-to-the-marrowbone enemies: insensibility, indifference and malice toward any expression of hope. To the bled-white spirits of his countrymen he dared to cry, "Lift up your hearts in prayer . . ." F. EPPLING REINARTZ Secretary
...Author Bruckberger finds another moral in Mary Magdalene's conversion-she also proved the hollowness of her Pharisee countrymen. "Simon the Pharisee believes himself 'pure,' and thereby he becomes a sinner, impenitent because his sin consists in believing that he is without sin. Mary Magdalene knows herself, recognizes herself, proclaims herself 'impure' and a sinner; this is why she attains the wellspring of all purity. In this humility and [in] this contrition is she justified...
...Alternative Policy. At the head of the delegation was pipe-smoking French Premier René Mayer, blowing a few optimistic smoke rings. "I will speak in the U.S.," he told his countrymen, "in the name of a country which is ready to participate in the construction of Europe provided that her position as a world power be recognized." Mayer, who came to power chiefly by promising the Gaullists severe changes in the EDC treaty, had come round to strong support for it-subject to a few modifications, of course. "When the time comes," said he last week, "the French Parliament...
...vulnerability to Communist military power. What comfort the Japanese can feel comes from U.S. friendship. It is here that Five Gentlemen becomes an important as well as an illuminating study. Gibney came to like and respect the Japanese. His book explains why the five gentlemen and their 85 million countrymen are entitled to "American responsibility to see Japan through this tense period, insuring the safety no longer of an apprentice, but of a respected equal with great potency for good. The Japanese give much promise of justifying such a trust...
...their hard-hit subjects, ailing King Baudouin took off with his father and stepmother for a spot of winter sunshine on the French Riviera. The Brussels press exploded. Newspapers, ordinarily respectful of the monarchy, front-paged pictures of the royal sunbathers side by side with photos of their flooded countrymen. A quick return and a tour of the worst-hit areas hardly helped at all, for Baudouin caught cold and flew back to the Riviera. Returning to Brussels, he gave a parting interview to the Parisian France Soir and was quoted as saying: "It is Belgian unity itself that...