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...work of the last five Popes (Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI, Pius XII). It is at once the most diffuse and most fundamental of peace programs because it is based on the belief that wars between nations can never be prevented until class conflicts within na tions have been adjusted. Therefore it talks less about peace than about the causes of social war - Capital and Labor, the relations between the individual and the State, Communism, the position of the family, regimentation, materialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace & the Papacy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...tanks, made in large Soviet plants in the Urals. Lend-leased British Churchills and U.S. Shermans were close behind. Then came the infantry, battle-toughened and well equipped, spirited by the news two days before of the invasion of Sicily. Their battle cry: Na Zapad (Westward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: No Zapad | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Hook, the Machiavellian position is unsound. Says he: "Behind the facade of logical argument in the writings of Mosca, Pareto and Michels, are two significant assumptions . . . that human na ture has a fixed and unalterable charac ter . . . that the amount of freedom and democracy in a society is determined by a law already known. Both assumptions are false." History, insists Hook, is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Democracy Possible? | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...Na, na, damchee, na, na, damchee! " wailed the tongawalla to a British officer, who was trying to rent his two-wheeled tonga at an air base in India. Then a U.S. sergeant stepped from the bazaar with the souvenirs he had bought, said: "Sorry, sir, but this is mine for the afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Hindus Have a Word | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Captain Bogdan, ranting, crazed with heat, died within a few days. His body was offered to the sea. Sharks collected and began to patrol the forlorn expedition. Certain that they had no chance, men & women prayed and gave way to despair. In their naïveté, the four children sang hymns, prayed and kept up hope, until the adults caught their courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: The Young and Hopeful | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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