Word: restedness
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As the applause died down, Franklin Roosevelt placed his right hand on his old family Bible, on the same page where it has rested at five previous inaugurations†: the 13th Chapter of 1st Corinthians, which ends: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these...
The Will of God. The simple Godfearing people of Walcheren had no hard feelings against the British. They said that the Germans would have cut the dikes if the British had not. They accepted the trials of war as they accepted the trials of the sea. They did not despair...
For 20 days, as Franklin Roosevelt relaxed at Warm Springs, Ga., Washington D.C. seemed more & more like an empty stage, its emptiness spotlighted by the news from Europe. Last week, back at the White House, the President faced newsmen, who arrived full of questions and left nearly empty of answers...
Up the Sleeve. In the Nijmegen-Arnhem salient, which the fearful Germans had flooded by opening the Waal dikes, General Crerar's Canadians, rested from the hellish battle of the Scheldt Estuary had wheeled into line again alongside the British. An all-out British-Canadian thrust across the Maas...
Last month it became clear to tired Chiang Kaishek, as to tired China, that reforms could not wait. for victory-that Allied help, until then too little, would be too late, that China, as usual, must rely upon China. Somehow China and Chiang found the strength. Chiang gave his armies...