Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the messages were to Catholics, but far more to Protestants, Jews, or people of no faith at all, for the Vatican's War Prisoner Information Bureau operates regardless of creed. Its information sometimes precedes by several weeks official Army notification...
...wish solemnly to state here, and with the greatest emphasis, that if, at the conclusion of war, our rights are not respected and our long and passionate devotion to freedom is not taken into consideration, all Poles, irrespective of religious or political creed, will be united to the last man to resist any claims which aim at the sovereignty of our country, from whatever quarter they might be raised...
...pursuit of happiness. It was the land where farmers exchanged notions on the best ways to cultivate crops and where manufacturers visited each other's plants to learn the latest production wrinkles. It was the land where its most bitterly hated politician had truly stated the creed of democratic government: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...
...Cross. Gandhi still had one more weapon left. If nothing else, Gandhi's powerful personality had escaped from seven months' enforced obscurity in jail. Within his philosophical creed of Satyagraha, which calls on the power of "love and true knowledge" to overcome all difficulties, he might still hope to "melt the hearts" of his enemies...
Crowds gathered outside the Palace each day, peeping through the grilled gates to the sunburned lawns and neglected flower beds. They caught no glimpse of Gandhi but they felt closer to him. Other Gandhi followers, disavowing the Mahatma's creed of nonviolence, rioted, stoned police, burned state buildings. These uprisings increased as the fast progressed, threatened to disrupt a stable wartime economy on which both British and American armed forces are dependent. But the Raj was prepared to meet this type of unrest. The only effective weapon left to Gandhi's badly battered Congress party was a fast...