Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Franklin Roosevelt had to tell them was something that could not keep: it was his answer to the question. On the soundness of his answer might well depend the fate of the democratic world...
...information about Wodehouse, or his release, signed by U. S. writers, editors, theatrical producers, the German charge d'affaires in Washington, Hans Thomsen, replied that Wodehouse was "quite comfortable." "You may rest assured that the American friends of Mr. Wodehouse . . . need not feel any anxiety about his fate as far as the German authorities are concerned." Doubtless there was no anxiety about Wodehouse's fate as far as the German authorities were concerned...
...headed north, reached Washington the next chill, drizzly afternoon, at the White House again talked with Mr. Hull. In the rain outside, men & women sloshed up & down Pennsylvania Avenue, now & then looking curiously at the White House. There rested their hopes, their problems, perhaps the shape of their fate. Unimportant, at the moment, were the Logan-Walter Bill that Mr. Roosevelt would veto, the St. Lawrence Seaway that he would promote, the controversies, vexations and misunderstandings of ordinary times. Mr. Roosevelt had asked for the job of dealing with just such a situation, and the U. S. had given...
...Britain's aid. His argument was simply that Hitler is a threat to the U. S. and that U. S. self-interest should dictate aid to Britain. Twice repeating that the decision was up to the U. S., he practically said that on the U. S. decision depends the fate of Britain, the outcome of the war, probably the future of the U. S. and all democracy...
...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 over 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easygoing '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales of the Bible have shot up from...