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Last week in Manhattan the Oxford Group presented an even better-documented case. At a meeting at the Hotel Plaza a small, bald, 54-year-old butler named Francis ("Frank") Sweeney arose to give testimony to the audience of 1,500. His employer, Mrs. Alan M. Limburg of White Plains, N. Y., whose husband is a nephew of New York's Governor Lehman, had just told how, born a Jewess, she had had difficulty in coming to know Christ. Then Butler Sweeney said...
Convert Sweeney soon became the steward of Calvary House, a mission ably run by Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, rector of Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church and No. 1 U. S. Group leader. Later he went as butler to Mrs. Limburg, joining with her once a week in "quiet time" (communion with...
...lips. For the past ten months the Graphic has published such stealth-got snapshots. Last week Graphic readers smirked and tittered at the "Unsuspected Moments" page. Not only had "Cyclops" got a picture of the Belgian Ambassador to Holland sitting on a shrub-hidden staircase with the Countess of Limburg-Thirmm at a Hague reception, but he had succeeded in taking a picture of himself in the mirror behind them...
...Such an agreement-declared by Dagblad to run for 25 years-might indeed stir profound uneasiness. But worse still, according to Dagblad, the General Staffs of France and Belgium plan to seize the offensive, in any future war with Germany, by advancing their troops across the Dutch province of Limburg. Thus Limburg would be "violated," as was Belgium...
...criminal!" A similar disclaimer was soon issued by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. None the less the responsible Dutch press of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague continued to display alarm. The extreme view was taken by Amsterdam's potent Socialist daily Volk. After graphically prophesying the "Violation of Limburg" by English troops, its editor sarcastically observed: "And this is the same England which in 1914 declared war because of the violation of Belgium's neutrality...