Word: reichelt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Christian crosses spring from Buddhist lotus-flower bases at Dr. Karl Ludwig Reichelt's red-roofed Tao Fong Shan mission high above lovely Shatin Valley near Hong Kong. That fusion of symbols suits the earnest, persuasive Norwegian missionary. His object is to teach Buddhist monks Christianity in a familiar setting, make them converts to take Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other...
Artist August Henkel had a glib explanation for everything. He produced a photograph of mustached Franz Reichelt, pioneer parachutist killed in a leap from the Eiffel Tower, which had struck him as a "stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated...
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