Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of War from the pre-Pearl Harbor Lend-Lease campaign until after V-J day, Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson never wavered in two firm convictions. One was that ultimate victory could be assured only by a cross-Channel invasion of Europe. The other was that the sooner the invasion came the better. In the first excerpts from his wartime autobiography, published in the January issue of the Ladies' Home Journal,* 80-year-old Henry Stimson this week gave his account of the battle he fought for adoption of his strategy...
...magnificent old stones of the Wailing Wall, worn smooth by centuries of kissing by devout Jews, shone brightly ; in the brilliant sunlight. There were no Jews there, and the three British constables guarding the wall said that none had visited the wall since trouble broke out. When we crossed the Old City to the First Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa, crowds of Moslems were coming out from Friday prayers at an Arab holy place, the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock (often miscalled the Mosque of Omar). They all glanced sharply at me, but hurried...
...packed crowd cheered the Monsignor's final words-the message of Cardinal Schuster himself, who sat a few feet away tightly clasping his cross: "It is the duty of every right-thinking man to support the Government in its difficult struggle. . . . Let the Milanese be worthy followers of their patron St. Ambrose. May St. Ambrose protect Milan...
...show of confidence, he worried about the problem of rallying and holding his forces. To him the enemy was less Communism than apathy. So he worried even about symbols. "When the Catholic Vanguardists were first formed, in 1919," he said, "they had a black flag embroidered with a golden cross and the motto 'Christ or Death.' It was an exciting flag. But the Fascists got a monopoly on the color black; so we have to fall back on white-the color of innocence but hardly inspiring. . . . Those cursed Fascists...
...Hollywood, Actor Robert Montgomery (who drove an ambulance in France in 1940) was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in San Francisco, the Legion's butter-plate-sized Grand Cross was hung on General Mark Clark...