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...Swedish Association to Promote Swimming, the International Red Cross. In the last months of World War II he shuttled back & forth between Sweden and Germany; he arranged for the exchange of war prisoners, started negotiations with Heinrich Himmler for Germany's surrender. He remained true to the Scout motto: Alltid Redo (Be Prepared). When the U.N. appointed him its mediator in Palestine, he was not only ready, but eager...
...town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
...Look About You." Monte Cassino's abbot, white-haired Ildefonso Rea, last week recalled that the Abbey's motto is succisa virescit (cut down, it grows again). He said quietly: "This monastery was founded in the 6th Century. Four times* it has been destroyed, and every time, no matter how long it took, Monte Cassino has risen again. Nature shows us the urgent will to live. Look about you. Half-burned tree trunks are sprouting fresh and vigorous shoots...
...oldest son was another Henry-redheaded "Harry," who taught at Iowa State Agricultural College and became Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge. Harry's wife, interested in genealogy, dug up the Wallace family coat of arms. It displayed an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe. The motto: Sperandum est (free translation: Somewhere, the sun is shining...
...limited Zionist state in the hope of achieving peace and order. Revisionists scorned, such compromise, demanded all of Palestine and Transjordan. The insignia of the Irgun (an outgrowth of the Revisionists) flaunted an arm holding a rifle above an outline of the old double Palestine-Transjordan mandate. Proclaimed its motto: Rak Kach (Only Thus). By terror and sabotage, the Irgun argued, the British could be driven from Palestine and the Arabs restrained...