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...metal foot protector that fits over the shoe and prevents toes from being smashed by falling objects or careless steppers...
Probably the only editor in uniform who has attacked his own Government again & again and got away with it is Captain Warwick M. J. Charlton, editor of the British Eighth Army News. Last week he had left Italy (where the Eighth is stalled) to serve under his old boss protector, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, now preparing to attack the Continent...
Children sobbed. Women stretched their hands to heaven. Men raced against the scorching lava to salvage rows of vegetables; they shook their heads dolefully, muttered: "Guerra, fame, distruzione" (War, hunger, destruction.) Priests prayed, paraded the image of St. Gennaro, the Neapolitans' legendary protector, who in the days of Roman persecution passed through a fiery furnace unharmed...
Bulgars could see the point, even when it was made by an unreconstructed Communist. Russia was their traditional protector, their only one if Germany should lose the war. Bulgaria could give her material aid: in Rumanian-held Bessarabia, now in the path of the Red Army, was a potential fifth column of over 150,000 Bulgars; in Yugoslavian Macedonia, Bulgarian troops were doing German guard duty against pro-Russian Marshal Tito's Partisans (some Bulgars had already joined his ranks...
Democracy and Dogma. In Christian theology Chesterton found "the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy," and the dogmatic justification of many of his social and political views. In the medieval church he saw the protector of the small landowner and the life of individual intensity. "There is no basis for democracy," he concluded, "except in a dogma about the divine origin of man." Chesterton's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922 (his priest, Father O'Connor, was the model for Detective Father Brown) was a sensation in England...