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...have entered on the road which can have no turning . . . Imperialism will perish before without fail and inevitably the day of the failure of the imperialism of Germany was forewritten from that time when she made her enemy in the greatest democracy in the world." (April...
...Brien is expected to present the social Roman Catholic thesis, established by papal encyclical, that Communism and Christianity are irretrievably opposed, and that one or the other must eventually perish...
...have staggered many a younger man. Through 30 cities, at the rate of almost one a day, he has toured the U.S. urging his fellow Protestants to unite at once in a common church of Christ.* Says he: "A world seeking unity, knowing that it must find it or perish, will pay only marginal heed to a church unable or unwilling to show the way to unity. . . . We think it is possible to find a form of union which will preserve all the good in the denominational emphases, and yet give the church a single, pointed power of witness...
...Osbert Sitwell, who will be 55 in December, is now on Volume III of a five-volume autobiography. He writes with the assurance that, whatever may happen to English aristocracy, the cadences of his prose are not likely to perish sooner than those of Walter Savage Landor or Sir Thomas Browne. Great Morning is a tribute from the worldliest of the artistic Sitwells to the most Arcadian period that any Englishman can remember: the last years of the peace that ended in August...
...learn something of the modern world. There was something abroad which we Americans couldn't or wouldn't understand. But unless we made some attempt to realize that everyone in the world isn't American, and that not everything American is good, we'd all perish together, and in this 20th Century...