Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the possibility of World War III was more & more in the horrified world's public eye. That there were those who looked upon war between the democratic, capitalist U.S. and authoritarian, Communist Russia as "inevitable" was no longer news. The news was the extraordinary number of spokesmen in both countries who, admitting the profound differences between them, insisted that war was repressible...
...Army Nurse of World War I Abingdon, III...
...Shinto that fostered Japan's feverish nationalism. It was Shinto that inspired Article I of Japan's constitution, which says: "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal," and Article III, which says: "The Emperor is sacred and inviolable." It was Shinto that taught Japanese law students: "Subjects have no mind apart from the will of the Emperor." Shinto taught Japanese Army privates: "Those who, with the words 'Tenno Heika Banzai!' (May the Emperor live forever!) on their lips, have consummated a tragic death...
...Brussels the escape of King Leopold III from the Nazis caused neither joy nor sorrow, but considerable embarrassment. The Socialist Party demanded that the King stay out of Belgium. The Catholic Party declared that if Leopold was kept out it would leave the Cabinet, in which it holds the balance of power...
Died. First Lieut. Augustus Van Cortlandt III, 22, only son of Manhattan socialite Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., 51, who thus became the last surviving male of his famed old New York family (Dutch-born Olaf Van Cortlandt emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1638), which once owned 83,000 acres of New York City and Westchester County (including the Bronx' huge, sprawling Van Cortlandt Park which was sold to the city in 1889); of wounds received in battle in Germany...