Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament of England," was very much alive last fortnight in London. In London's Institut Français, members of the International P.E.N. Club met to celebrate Areopagitica's tercentenary with a conference on: 'The Place of Spiritual and Economic Values in the Future of Mankind." Outside, glass tinkled as cleaners swept up the Institutes buzz-bombed windows. Within the drafty building P.E.N.'s calm General Secretary Hermon Quid remarked: "A klaxon will sound for imminent danger. That will not allow time to leave the hall, so you must just duck. We are all used...
...news that made the whole free world catch its breath last week was the news that Paris was free. It was one of the great days of all time. For Paris is the city of all free mankind, and its liberation last week was one of the great events of all time...
...This war will certainly end with a large-scale social organization of mankind, both horizontally and vertically. It will end with certain achievements as far as the form of government is concerned . . . will lead to the strengthening of the democratic concept ... to more political freedom for the individual. It will end with achievements in the economic field that will reduce the exploitation...
Refining his diagnosis, Professor Trueblood, a Quaker, declares of most current church practice: "What mankind desperately needs is Justice, Mercy and Truth, but what we are offered is some ugly stained-glass windows and a holy tone and a collection plate full of dimes...
...professional exterminators who work in New York City last week generally felt that they were barely holding their own against the insect world. The verminous swarm which always threatens mankind has made great wartime gains due to shortages of insecticide and manpower and to heavy wartime travel (especially of insects aboard furloughed servicemen...