Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party discovered traces of a civilization totally different from Europe's first signs of man in the lower-Paleolithic age. Whereas the cave men of the primeval western world fashioned fairly useful implements, the early Burmese peoples had extremely crude contrivances with which to secure their food and protect themselves. When the geologists examined chipped rocks in the gravel of the Irrawaddy Valley, they had great difficulty determining whether natural or whether human forces had been at work...
...sore spots, in contrast with England's one hundred miles, our milder degree of unpreparedness nevertheless warrants close attention. First, during the Fall, the various maneuvers of the Army revealed a scarcity of anti-aircraft equipment, of different types of mobile guns, as well as insufficient guns to protect the coast. The production, or at least distribution of new rifles to soldiers has been slow. Second, it has just been admitted by Admiral Leahy that completion of some of the ships for the Navy has been held up due to lack of materials, to changes in plans during construction...
...Faulhaber, Germany's No. 1 anti-Nazi prelate, preached in his cathedral on "The God-Given Rights of Personality," to the accompaniment of rude whistles (which he ignored) from Nazis in his congregation. Last week, at the height of Germany's pogroms, Cardinal Faulhaber asked for police protection for the Catholic clergy. Instead he received, from District Leader Adolf Wagner, a snarl: "If Faulhaber mends his ways, he will be protected better than the police can protect him." Thereupon a Nazi mob ganged up to the Cardinal's palace, smashed all the windows within stone...
...instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, whose duties are to be those of a minister for civilian defense, blamed the whole thing on "enormous" British inertia, called upon all parties to "cooperate to prove that Democracy can function to protect itself as efficiently as a Dictatorship." Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, while admitting "many mistakes of omission and commission," emphasized that His Majesty's Government did distribute 38,000,000 gas masks to the public, helped dig trenches in which 1,000,000 Britons could have huddled during...
...quotation from a recent talk by Pope Pius XI which, although published in European Catholic papers, has not been publicized in the U. S.* Said the Pope: "It is not possible for Christians to take part in antiSemitism. We fully acknowledge that everybody has the right to defend himself, protect himself against whatever threatens his legitimate interests. But anti-Semitism is inadmissible. We are all Semites spiritually...