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Italian anger at Italians had grown so violent that there was little vigor left to damn the British. Example (from an Italian broadcast): "The Italian is a light-hearted and easygoing fellow until he is aroused. . . . The British ought to remember this."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Most Solemn Moment | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

The Failures of Force. Of the fate of German Christians Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, secretary of the World Council of Churches, says, "This is one of the most subtle and terrible persecutions in all history." But the blood of martyrs is the seed of faith. Though the Nazis have jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: German Martyrs | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Last week devout Brazilian toymakers thanked their patron saint and a U. S. businessman as they delivered 250,000 toys to Lojas Americanas, Brazil's best-known variety chain. It was the biggest order they had ever received from jolly, pink-faced Jim Marshall. Born in the Scranton coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: An American in Rio | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Best-known South American composer is Heitor Villa-Lobos, talkative, self-taught Brazilian, a man of tremendous energy who has written more than 1,400 pieces, and has said, "Better bad of mine than good of others." Last week, in connection with a big show of paintings by Brazil'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choros in Manhattan | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Pomp attended to, the Episcopalians got to business. The 130-odd members of the House of Bishops sat themselves down at workmanlike desks in the Auditorium's Little Theatre under the easygoing gavel of Bishop Tucker. (He asked his fellow prelates not to smoke during regular sessions: "I am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Triennial in a Warring World | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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