Word: penitentes
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At a mass meeting held by Germany's four major parties (Social Democrats, Communists, Liberal Democrats and Christian Democrats) in Berlin's British sector, shrewd, grey Communist Leader Wilhelm Pieck called for national unity and informed the Nazi small fry that they were welcome as comrades. Said he...
Two years later the penitent lawmakers paid her back and for good measure hung her portrait (titled "savior of the Alamo") on a capitol wall. One of the legislators was Newspaperman Henry Hulme Sevier, founder of the Austin American. By the time he married the fiery-eyed, sabertongued heiress in...
"We shall become impatient and irritated with our allies; and God knows they will be tried and provoked with us. ... Penitent, pardoned, and therefore truly humble Americans-can we fancy it?-may under God be used to discover and help establish wise international arrangements."
Millions of Germans learned penitential drills and marches, made penitential trips abroad. Soon Chief Penitent Friedolin's "Shepherd's Council" included a "Shepherd for Aviation" and a number of "Shepherds Without Crooks" - all veterans of World War II. Penitent Hjalmar Schacht became "Shepherd for Finance" - and soon Russia...
"But while we condemn the sin we understand how great are the temptations to which many are now subject. . . . God will give help to those who pray to Him, and to those who have yielded to temptation He offers pardon if they are truly penitent."