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Reverend Anarchist. The 100,000 franc ($830) Pléiade Prize went to a 33-year-old Catholic priest, Jean Natal Grosjean for his metaphysical poem Terre du Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic mainstays, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and dislikes Catholic poets Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory...
...bomb-chesty body of a four-engined Lancastrian (converted Lancaster bomber) rumbled up Buenos Aires' Morón airport, rose easily over the Plata estuary, and shrank into the east. A good turnout of proud British clapped politely. Regular biweekly service from Argentina to London (via Montevideo, Rio, Natal, Bathurst, Lisbon), by the soon-to-be-nationalized British South American Airways (B.S.A.A.), had begun...
...A.A.F. pointed to its safety record: only three bombers had been lost; not one life had been lost in the A.T.C.'s transporting of 67,200 troops. Naval craft of three nations (U.S., Britain and Brazil) patrolled the three routes (via Iceland and Newfoundland; via the Azores; via Natal, Brazil, and the Caribbean). They were a chain of beacons, supplying weather data to the homing aircraft. Ashore, long range planes stood by for rescue missions...
...Fourth of July. The ancient cruiser Baía was patrolling the South Atlantic along the route that Allied planes fly from Natal to Dakar. With four U.S. Navy technicians aboard, some of the Brazilian sailors were celebrating Independence Day. A stunning explosion rocked the Baía. Subsequent blasts literally blew her apart. Blue-bloused sailors were tossed into the waves. Commander Davila Garcia Albuquerque, his arm shattered by the explosion, shouted to his crew, "Save yourselves; I'm finished." But few of them were able to. Three minutes after the first explosion the Baía sank...
Inspired Discernment. Then in Natal, South Africa, (circa 1905), a lean, struggling, expatriate Hindu lawyer, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, had a political discernment of genius: in God-obsessed India the politics of liberation must take the form of a religious struggle. Doffing his European store clothes and donning a dhoti, the little man moved against the British Empire in the name of four principles: satyagraha (acceptance of Truth), ahimsa (non-violence), swadeshi (home industry), swaraj (independence). From then on, the history of Indian-British relations has been a long, painful procession of thousands of nonresisting Indian nationalists passing...