Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind him lay one of the most extraordinary journeys in U. S. history. Searching for a parallel, commentators could think of only two: President Wilson's voyage to the Peace Conference, Theodore Roosevelt's triumphal tour through Europe after he left the White House. Yet even these, dramatically as they brought the U. S. before Europe's millions, were unlike the trip of Wendell Willkie, private citizen traveling at his own expense, into besieged Britain and out again. When he left, 18 days before, the headlines were announcing the fall of Tobruch and the riots in Rumania...
...Belgium Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, and five other bishops issued a pastoral letter strikingly parallel to the pro-Allied pastorals of the late great Cardinal Mercier which kept up the morale of occupied Belgium during World War I. Angry Nazis promptly closed every Belgian church for three days but the pastoral circulated regardless. In it the six prelates recognized the Nazis only "as a de facto power," proclaimed that "the Belgian fatherland continues to exist," urged "national solidarity" and "moral unity," closed with an appeal to remember Armistice Day and to pray for all Belgians fallen...
...through Harvard and sweep away the antiquated House parietal restrictions. Symptomatic of a tendency to treat undergraduates more like adult citizens, the move also has the virtue of abolishing an impossible situation at least in the case of the liquor ban, which was unenforceable and universally winked at. The parallel with Harvard's chaperone and permission requirements for women guests is obvious...
...India is in a state of political ferment for which no parallel can be found since the civil disobedience movement of ten years ago." So wrote the London Times's India correspondent last week. He was putting the situation mildly...
Crossed Lines. Ideally the rearmament program should be progressing in three neat parallel lines of administration, management, labor. But last week the lines were wavering, crossing, occasionally colliding head on. Congressmen raised longer and louder cries for legislation outlawing strikes in defense industries. The President himself had said: "The nation expects our defense industries to continue operation without interruption by strikes or lockouts." Among the crossed-up lines last week...