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Little Things. U.S. fighting men know that perhaps the greatest service being performed by the Red Cross is the one that seems the humblest-keeping up the morale of lonely men, whose homesickness is notorious. Said Red Cross Worker How ard Barr in Washington last week: "American soldiers were literally stunned when they saw Africa for the first time. . . . They thought they would find burning sands and blazing sun. . . . Instead they found intense cold . . . completely modern cities . . . Arabs and other natives who were unlike anything they had ever seen. . . . For the first time they really felt as though they were...
Thus did President General Manuel Avila Camacho address last week's opening session of the Mexican Congress. He was explaining to his people the reason why war reached across wide expanses of oceans and crossed high mountains of prejudice to disturb the siestas of even the humblest peon. He talked of a "new social, economic and international order." He warned that peace, when it comes, "will not endure without a general modification of the methods of labor, without the humanization of the system of commerce, and without an efficient recognition of the rights which each nation...
...this mansion had come many men: the lordly rulers of India, the sycophants, the rebels and the humblest peasants of the field. Here Nehru longed to return from the squalor and the wranglings in Bombay. Then came a knock at the door. Quickly Nehru's Oxford-educated daughter, Indira, ran to open it. She expected radio men setting up a microphone for a broadcast that Nehru was to make to the U.S. But the callers were not radio men. They were British police...
...China, Christian institutional and educational work looms as large as evangelism. The 271 Protestant hospitals and the 267 Catholic hospitals and asylums have in the past generation worked themselves into the consciousness of Chinese of every class. The humblest rickshaw coolie knows where to go to have his mucus-draining eyes treated, or who will help when his wife has childbed fever. The 13 Protestant colleges. 255 Protestant middle schools, six Protestant medical schools and three Catholic colleges today are some of the chief sources of Government leadership. The best engineers, doctors and scientists come from mission universities...
...profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here while I have an ounce of energy. . . ." He said that if he could not attend, his mother could take his place. If anything happened to her, he said, the humblest countryman in the island could step forward and carry on the task. But Muñoz Marin could not assign to anybody else the promise that his followers found in him while he was warning them to have no faith in the promises of politicians, including himself...