Word: martyre
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...donor's daughter, and for a Third Century Sicilian martyr, patroness of the blind...
...readers, prodded as they are, are likely to miss Author Briffault's point. At the front Julian sees a coward's drunken action win a V.C. Nurses who served with "Martyr" Edith Cavell show no sympathy for her admirers. Meeting Lenin on his way back to Russia to guide the revolution, Julian wishes him every success. Briffault's spokesman-hero, written down as missing after a hopeless attack, recovers in a German hospital, goes to Russia rather than return to perfidious England after the Armistice. There he finds Zena again, marries her. Though he survives both...
...democracy. Its immediate purpose was to force Marshal Smigly-Rydz to bring back to Poland Wincenty Witos, founder and head of the Peasant Party. Witos, who fled to Czechoslovakia to escape sentence inflicted by Pilsudski's courts for opposition in the 1930 election, is the peasants' living martyr...
...CULPA-Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Little, Brown ($2). By the author of the sensational Journey to the End of the Night, a long essay on the Hungarian doc^ tor Semmelweis, martyr to modern antisepsis, and a brief essay on the Soviet Union, the latter breaking all existing records for anti-Communist invective...
Flags all over Rightist Spain went to half-staff early last week. This marked the first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines...