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...Peace. "I had hoped to be able to defer this talk until next week because, as we all know, this is Holy Week. In this decision I have been strengthened by the thought that by speaking tonight there may be greater peace of mind and that the hope of Easter may be more real at firesides everywhere, and that it is not inappropriate to encourage peace when so many of us are thinking of the Prince of Peace...
...before dawn on Easter morning for a sunrise service, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt Sr.. next day watched 30,000 youngsters indulge in the annual privilege of rolling eggs across the White House lawn...
...rescue forces were on the way from Tsingtao and Tientsin via Tsinan, beating their way down railways harassed by Chinese Communist guerillas, Yihsien had to be captured quickly if at all. Therefore some Chinese Christian soldiers formed on the spot "The Good Friday Battalion," vowed to take Yihsien before Easter Sunday or die in the attempt...
Holy Week. The church at Viñaroz, transformed by the Peoples Army of the Spanish Leftist into a market, was hastily cleaned out, reconsecrated in time for Easter services last week. In Seville the traditional ceremonies of Holy Week, celebrated before the civil war with greater popular participation and solemn pomp than anywhere else in the world, were back to normal last week, with His Eminence Pedro Cardinal Segura officiating. Once again all Seville turned out, cigaret workers from the factory of Carmen in Bizet's famed opera shouldering their gorgeous, gold, bejeweled Madonna of Victory...
...House then rose for the Easter recess, and M. P.s had leisure to read other pertinent comments on Adolf Hitler made last week by his boyhood friend, Fritz Grunscheder, today working in a New Britain, Conn, brewery. Said Mr. Grunscheder: "I can remember lots of times when we would call Adolf over and tell him he could come with us to where there were some good apples to be snitched. But Adolf could never come. His father worked for the Government and it would be bad if he got caught. It was as if he had to set an example...