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...Sunday morning the religious service started with a Swiss hymn. Howard stepped things up with a nice little talk, full of comforting variations on themes now becoming familiar to me. Then the confessions were resumed where they had broken off the day before...
Mexico's eloquent former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla prefaced the Cleveland Council on World Affairs' 21st Annual Institute with the above verse, from (he said) a 19th Century English hymn...
Last week, on the 24th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, Fascist banners fluttered from Roman public buildings, pamphlets glorifying Il Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...hear Chopin's familiar polonaises and nocturnes. Says Wasowski: "I think it was then I found Chopin's soul." Once at Warsaw he watched from his window a mass execution of 23 Poles. "I saw them placed against walls-eyes bound. They calmly sang the Polish national hymn. Madness seized me. I rushed to the rickety piano which was placed in the back room, and I accompanied them. I suppose they can't have heard me, because the Germans apparently didn...
...Most Northerners who are preoccupied with the South's perversities are putting up-to-date words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. .. . Most Southerners today are again chanting, 'To hell with the Yankees.' . . . Unless the South rids itself of the belief that outside pressure is mounting unendurably, an old terror may walk again at noon" (see below...