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...clergy sent a message to Il Duce. "May the sure victory of our arms gloriously place the Italian flag on the Holy Sepulchre, and revindicate the glory and rights of the House of Savoy, restorer of harmony amongst civilized people of Imperial and Christian Rome." Il Duce, self-styled "Protector of Islam" (which includes Palestine's Arabs), said nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope's Paper | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...vocal, were the outraged counter-cries from the Communist Party, meeting in New York City for its national convention. In a report which took him four hours to read, General Secretary Earl Browder praised Soviet Russia as the "only one really neutral Great Power" remaining in the world, the protector of weak nations, the "beaconlight" of the working class. Said Browder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Fifth Column | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Netherlands was told she had capitulated to her first "protector" since Napoleon Bonaparte set up his brother Louis as her King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Fall of The Netherlands | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Minister. Significant was this first official function Mr. Churchill had found time to attend. It was a safe guess that Mr. Churchill indicated no desire to jump The Netherlands East Indies. Still open, however, was the question of how long the Japanese would wait to see what Germany, the "protector" of The Netherlands, would do about her colonies. Saturday Mr. Churchill let it be known that his Government was seeking a "new and more friendly approach" to the Soviet Union, that two days earlier Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had had an important talk with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Men of Valor | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Inspired as never before, the press screamed in flaming red headlines: "The disorder ... of more than three centuries will be revised. . . . An outworn era is crumbling to dust beneath the marching feet of the German Army!" Pregnant with crusading zeal, Nazi Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg proclaimed: "Germany has become the protector of the endangered and oppressed continent. It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States. National Socialist Germany, the heart of Central Europe, enters upon its historic rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: To Paris | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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