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...mighty nations have bared their swords in darkest night In mutual struggle for the common cause and the common glory...
...peal rang out the good tidings of Easter. But Londoners were especially delighted to hear St. Paul's bells ring the half-hour-long Stedman Cinques. Alfred B. Peck, for 40 years bell-ringer at the Cathedral, had long been awaiting this day. All through Britain's darkest hours he and his 13 assistants bad practiced regularly on the Cathedral's twelve-bell peal with a special muffling apparatus that prevented any sound...
...discussion of reasons for such a gift, he said, "This outdoor spot, in the heart of the city, has been created in our darkest hours of war so that children may grow up to be better men and women in a better world. It is a living token of that hope and of that faith which we so sorely need today...
...grandiose, climactic triumphs, has precipitated today's delicately balanced crisis which the President is trying to resolve by his back-to-work exhortation of last night. If soft coal production stops at midnight tonight when the U.M.W.-bituminous coal operators contract expires, it will be one of the darkest midnights of the war. But there is much more to the problem than the crafty gyrations of John L. While close to one hundred thousand miners have already "wildcatted," the War Labor Board, like every other major agency designed to deal with labor disputes, has thrown up its hands and passed...
...part of our policy to get Turkey into trouble. . . . Disaster to Turkey would be disaster to Britain and all the United Nations. Hitherto, Turkey has maintained a solid barrier against aggression from any quarter, and by doing so even in the darkest days, she rendered us invaluable service. . . . It is of important interest to the United Nations and especially Britain that Turkey should become well armed in all the apparatus of a modern army, and her brave infantry shall not lack the essential weapons which play a decisive part on the battlefield today. These weapons we and the United States...