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...Americans it was a troubled week. To them the holiday season had never been just a time of tinsel and gifts; it was a great golden week of home and church, of cantatas and midnight mass, of mangers on the family hearth. Now, this year, in the solemnity of a Yuletide of war, the nation felt a vague anxiety...
...HEARTH & HOME...
Author Davenport has packed her book with descriptions of the unfeminine workings of Bessemers, open-hearth furnaces, skip-hoists, cast-houses. The men who pump lifeblood through the heart of Pittsburgh come alive in her pages-Irish steelworkers of the 1870s, Slovaks and "Hunkies" pouring in from the mills of Europe. Novelist Davenport's description of this hard, world-transforming valley of steel and furnaces is the most memorable part of her impressive work...
...Russians read the first copies of a new paper, British Ally, published by Britain and noted its quotation from Churchill's valiant speech of June 22, 1941: "The cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free people ... in every quarter of the globe." The Russians were not impressed...
...Sanatani Hindu, Gandhi accepts Varna (color), while disavowing the caste system, but stands by the concept of caste in marriage and the profession as the law of heredity. The principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor worship. Satyagraha was coined by Gandhi from the words Saty (truth and love) and agraha (firmness) as the Hindu interpretation of soul force. Closely akin to this is Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek...