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Yung Wang, button-cute "Helen Hayes of China," was studying at Bryn Mawr. At 26, the prewar cinema star had an age of peril behind her. She had been caught by the Jap invasion of Hong Kong, slipped out disguised as a ragged halfwit, ultimately made a 40-day hairbreadth journey to the safety of Chungking. For two years she had entertained troops, lived in the front lines, traveled on foot with a force that moved so exclusively at night that it became known as "The Cat's Eye Army." But last week at Bryn Mawr she still looked...
...word they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin once possessively hailed as "Russia's Essen") awaited the Red blow. For many, the blow might come within days...
Chaplains have been writing home from the fighting fronts about an unusual burst of religious interest, Among soldiers & sailors. Fighting men suddenly snatched from death have written books describing how they prayed in peril and how their prayers were heard.* To some people these spiritual stirrings look like the beginning of a religious revival. Others have been reminded of the little boy who would say his prayers only at night, explaining that "any bright boy can look out for himself in the daytime, but at night he needs some help...
...danger. . . . We shall not say that those who have looked death in the eye and suddenly become aware of the reality of God will lose the vision when the danger passes. . . . But if religion is to have its full value as a 'last resort' in times of peril or affliction, it must have deep rootage, broad leafage and ample fruitage in the normal circumstances of life...
...peace or of war, and under many leaders, has always pursued with determination the policy that truth can come only from the minds of men who are free. He comes to us as a man who dared to assume the leadership of his country at a moment of dire peril and yet to tell his countrymen that all he had to offer them was, "blood, and sweat and tears.": as one whose unfailing courage and optimism has never wavered, because be knows the worth of that freedom for which he is fighting; and as one who has sworn eternal hostility...