Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prayers and Pets. Characteristically Britons in the pious shires agitated themselves over whether it was their duty when at prayer "to pray also for the Germans" as enjoined by the Archbishop of York. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals revealed that, because pets are barred from air-raid shelters, great numbers of Britons are deliberately risking their lives by refusing to leave their pets. Only solution, according to the R. S. P. C. A., was to build air-raid shelters for pets. A 36-dog shelter was begun in Kensington Gardens...
...Participated silently in the day he had proclaimed to pray for peace, by attending the ivy-covered St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park. With him were Mrs. Roosevelt and their refugee guests, Crown Princess Martha and the Countess Ostgaard of Norway, who heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson declare: ". . . We are on the brink of the greatest catastrophe of all times...
...Last week Bermudians were pleased at the U. S. negotiations but memorialized their disturbance "lest some new conception of American hemispheric defense may affect the status of this ancient colony. . . . We reaffirm our unswerving loyalty to His Majesty the King. . . . We pledge our support to any agreement reached, but pray that such agreement may take heed of our deep-rooted and fervent attachment to the crown...
...Italian Bishop of Terracina, who in a vibrant pastoral letter to his flock declared: "We ought most fervently to address our prayers to the God of Hosts that he may deign to bless the officers and soldiers and crown their sacrifice and heroism with complete victory. We should particularly pray for the return of the holy places and especially the Cenacle and the Holy Sepulchre, which will receive the veneration due to them only when the flag of Catholic and Fascist Italy flies above them...
...always firm in saying: "I don't like to fly." The first of her three husbands was a U. S. Navy flier, and Mrs. Wallis Spencer undoubtedly saw and heard of enough deadly crashes to make her hate aircraft as much as she hates cats. Says she: "I pray that trains will never stop running...