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...palace for a fortnight, was induced to receive him again only on the intercession of British Ambassador Lord Killearn. This time Britain did not intercede. To the Abdine Palace to form a new Government the King summoned portly Achmed Maher Pasha, President of the Chamber of Deputies, whose political credo is: Egypt's destiny is linked with Britain...
Howard's letter had hardly been mailed before Brother Charles began telling Italy goodby. For some days, the sergeant had been slated for a furlough. But if young Howard's letter had done nothing else, it had restated a simple American credo. Even in the 28th month of a $312 million-a-day war, the still-unregimented U.S. people believed that people come first. The War Department, taking time out to judge assorted tales of loneliness, sickness and heartache, generally agreed...
...literary magazine, Pseudopodia. In demand as a speaker, gifted with a whispery, well modulated voice, she began work with Southern church groups, also interviewed prospects for the Julius Rosenwald Fund,* changed her literary magazine to the politically conscious South Today, and began to put into practice the new credo of Southern racial reform...
...That credo is hard to link to any coherent political philosophy. Its main focus is on that maze of human emotions that is known to theoreticians as the race problem. It combines practical common-sense proposals for bettering race relations (which intelligent Southerners do anyway) with doctrinaire opinions on what is wrong with Southerners (and what they should do about it) that irritate most Southerners...
...obstacle shall deviate the men of La Prensa from defending, at the risk of their material interests, of their personal security if it were necessary, the liberty of thought and expression of ideas." This is the credo of one of the world's great newspapers, La Prensa of Buenos Aires. Last week it was living up to its credo. It defied the Argentine dictatorship (see p. 40), demanded restoration of freedom of the press...