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...General Charles de Gaulle, "carried with him, in this small aeroplane, the honour of France." In all the world there is probably no one more certain of this than De Gaulle himself. In his story of World War II, The Call to Honour, he plainly sees himself as more savior than soldier and ends on a mystical note: "Poring over the gulf into which the country has fallen, I am her son, calling her, holding the light for her . . . I can hear France now, answering me . . . Ah! mother, such as we are, we are here to serve...
...biggest magazines on the Continent, and who also holds financial control of the conservative, respected Figaro (circ. 499-200), oldest daily in France. Among French newsmen and politicos. Publisher Prouvost has been called everything from the "obscene corrupter of the press" to "the savior of the fourth estate." But on one judgment all agree: Prouvost is the king of French publishing...
Some said he had the death wish on him, some that he had taken the hit-run motor incident (TIME, May 3) badly and was deeply ashamed at driving on without stopping. Others saw him as he saw himself, the tragic figure of a savior to whom nobody was grateful. He insisted over and over that only his resignation from Labor's shadow Cabinet at the first mention of a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization had restrained Clement Attlee and indirectly, Anthony Eden, from plunging ahead and bringing on a world war. Stubbornly he reiterated that the rank and file...
...citizen with taxes, relentlessly watches his every move. It is a far cry from the good old days of 1921, when Author Hecht, acting as "fund-raiser" for a Baptist group, "persuaded the Baptist synod ... to offer a prize of $5,000 for the best biography of the Savior," entered the contest under "the name of a needy Baptist pastor"-and walked off with the prize...
...theological system, Tillich has attempted to bring together liberal and orthodox Christianity. He advocates that the Christian, without losing his image of Christ as the Savior, must adjust the externals of his faith, his philosophy, and his culture to the circumstances of his time...