Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...
Though Kagawa had been twice imprisoned (briefly) towards the close of the war, when he was accused of having "peace thoughts." he escaped more lightly than other Christian leaders. (Two Episcopal bishops spent more than three months in prison.) Possible reasons: 1) his ready accession to government pressure for a merger of the Christian churches; 2) his uncertain health; 3) his anti-American broadcasts, speeches, and articles...
...take charge of the prison seminary, 42-year-old Father Stock had to become a voluntary prisoner of war. When the camp is closed and the prisoners repatriated, he wants to return to his church in Paris. Says he: "It makes no difference where I serve, so long as I am of the greatest use. In the Kingdom of God there are no geographical divisions...
Protestants have followed the Catholic example. A year ago in a prison barracks at Montpellier they opened a P.W. seminary with 30 German prisoner-pupils, now have...
Married. Captain Louis Zamperini, 29, onetime University of Southern California track star, 1936 Olympic miler, wartime Army Air Corps bombardier who survived 47 days on a life raft and 27 torture-filled months in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 17); and Cynthia Applewhite, 20, of Miami Beach, Fla.; in Los Angeles...