Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked early in the week as if the election might come closer to democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance to pile up a whopping sum of honest votes. In Mexico that was something. The candidates...
Next day, in a brief speech, Carl Sandburg said sadly: "We could well pray that in some quarters of the country there would be less vehemence, less vanity of affairs, less discussion regarding what should immediately be done, and something more of the element of prayer and humility that was Lincoln's in the 'house divided' speech. If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what...
...Dallas, Tex., on Flag Day, 15,000 Texans resolved for all help to the Allies except men & blood, applauded when the resolution's sponsor said: If this "leads to war, then we will meet that issue. ..." But when the grave faces bowed in prayer {see cut}, the refrain was: "Lead us not into war but into peace...
...case their excitement led to violence. As night fell the city's lights failed to wink on. The Vatican was blacked out too, lest its neutral and holy illumination guide airborne enemies on a raid. Inside, disheartened Pius XII knelt for an hour in his chapel in prayer. British diplomats would be evacuated by warship to Albania, thence could make their way into still neutral Greece, it was said. The Simplon-Orient Express had, of course, stopped running...
...Rome last week, good Roman Catholics crossed themselves, averted their eyes from posters which blossomed on walls here & there in the city. The posters carried a blasphemous "Prayer of the Perfect Italian Fascist," which clumsily parodied the ancient supplications of Christians: Credo I believe in England, zone of tyranny, creator of sanctions and Masonic gods, and in Eden, her son, our only axman, -who was conceived by virtue of Masonic and anti-Fas cist spirits, was born out of the League of Nations, will suffer always under the spirit of Mussolini, went down to Hell with his father. . . . I believe...