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Cried Geoffrey Shakespeare, Under Secretary for the Dominions and Chairman of the Evacuation Board: "This deed will shock the world...
...would like to tell the sorrowing parents how deeply we grieve for them over the loss of their children in the ship torpedoed without warning in mid-Atlantic (see p. 21). Surely the world could have no clearer proof of the wickedness against which we fight than this foul deed. . . . Let us then put our trust, as I do, in God and in the unconquerable spirit of the British people...
Says he: "There are three areas, in particular, where a swift renewal of faith and act and deed must take place: these are the areas that have always been lifesustaining, life-preserving, life-forwarding. One is the family. The other is the land. And the third is the self. . . . Without a revamping of our ideas and practices in these areas . . . our efforts to preserve a civilized social order will be feeble and hollow. . . ." How this revamping is to be accomplished, practically under fire, is left somewhat vague, all the more so because Author Mumford. by habit, intention and idiom, addresses...
When Simon Patino was born a poor cholo (half-Indian) in Cochabamba, Bolivia produced hardly any tin at all. When he grew up and became a clerk in a miner's supply store, he one day allowed a prospector to settle a $250 debt with the deed to a tin mine. This got him fired, put him in the tin business just as the mines of Saxony, Bohemia and Cornwall began to run out. By 1910 he was selling to Europe on a big scale. By 1912 he had $2,000,000 to buy more mines...
Quakers abhor intensity of word or deed, believe merely that "the presence of God is an illumination to the soul." When they gather for worship they keep silent, knowing that this "Inner Light" will move them to say what is fitting when it is fitting. (If no one is moved after an hour of quiet, the meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no ordained priesthood. Their societies are organized simply in Preparative Meetings (one or more congregations), Monthly Meetings (one or more Preparative Meetings), Quarterly Meetings (members from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (members from several Quarterly Meetings), General...