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...German artillery batteries had deliberately shattered Louvain University's Library in 1940, the second time in two wars. Just before the shelling, a German officer gave a German reason for it: "These Belgian swine have an insulting inscription about us on their library." The officer was wrong. Cardinal Mercier's proposed inscription-Furore Teutonico Diruta, Dono Americano Restituta (Destroyed by German Fury, Restored by American Gift)-was never used because Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and U.S. pacifists denounced it as hate-breeding...
...Belgium King Leopold surrendered, but Cardinal van Roey, heroic successor to heroic Cardinal Mercier, publicly forswore Catholic collaboration with "an oppressive regime" and forbade his priests to give the sacrament to anyone wearing the German uniform. Rather than let the Nazis prostitute the educational system, he closed the schools and universities. Throughout Europe, when the universities and the press and the writers and philosophers were silenced, "only the churches"-in the words of Albert Einstein-"stood squarely across the path of Hitler...
Half a century ago a pompous, patrician French Army officer, Mercier du Paty de Clam, played a key role in the historic plot against Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Emile Zola's flaming J'Accuse! began "I accuse Colonel du Paty de Clam of having been the diabolical agent...
...space of 24 hours, on October 6, another honorary degree was granted, this time to Cardinal Desire Felicien Francolise Joseph Mercier, Belgium's hero primate. Describing Cardinal Mercier, as "a great rock in the wilderness," Lowell conferred the honor before an assembly of dignitaries at Sanders Theatre...
...Stanley Steamer. At Rutgers University, Robert Louis Stevenson enrolled in an elementary course in English composition. In Detroit, the Housing Commission pondered evicting Worthy Peoples for not paying his rent. In Portland, Ore., E. L. Aprill and T. B. Showers enlisted in the Navy. In Baltimore, L. B. Mercier was refused a job because he had no first name-just initials. On Guadalcanal, Lieut. Dan Gaede dived into a foxhole, landed on top of Lieut. Commander Dan E. Gaede, a stranger, who turned out to be a cousin...