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...CALDWELL'S latest offering of short stories will enhance his reputation among those who already admire him, but it will certainly add to the indignation of those who fail to find in his widely praised artistry a compensation for the insensate violence of his themes. Kneel to the Rising Sun is in the author's most characteristic manner. The stories are for the most part laid in the South (which once provided us with our most romantic fiction) and deal with such subjects as lynching, starvation among the share-croppers and unemployed factory workers, criminal assault, black and white "naturals...
...Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile of money, lifted both hands for the congregation to kneel with him in a prayer of thanks. Then seven attendants stuffed the bills into bags, carried them out to be counted-$7,916.56. Meanwhile New York's small Bishop William Thomas Manning had marched, not up to the altar singing "Onward Christian Soldiers," but straight out of Convention Hall...
...floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When next seen. Nathan Rothschild is at court with his wife, wondering on which knee to kneel while being knighted. His daughter Julie is engaged to marry Captain Fitzroy and the chains have been removed from Frankfort's Jew Street...
...captured the imagination and the hearts of the world because he conformed to the illusive, universal vision of a crowned monarch. In public life he was wise, honest, and just, in private life he loved a loving wife. He could bow without condescension and kneel without servility. He was a gentleman: he was courageous: he was firm: and he was kind. His presence in a turbulent and cynical world lent some air of stability and truth to an institution that men had come to feel was fragile and dishonest. And he preserved for himself and for his own countrymen...
...throttle, the Hitler juggernaut moved to squash flat what remained of the German Socialist Party, most of whose leaders had already fled the Reich. Long before Chancellor Hitler came to power, Nazi Frick as Minister of Culture and Interior in Thuringia made every schoolchild in that State kneel down every day and pray "Oh God. I believe Thou punishest the traitor and blessest the Liberator of our Homeland. Free us from deceit and treason!" Last week Dr. Frick denounced the entire Socialist Party as "treasonable . . . subversive and inimical to the State and people...