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Time, moreover, is our savior as well as our destroyer. It is the air we must breathe, the lens through which we perceive timelessness, through which we become conscious...
...Eloquent Savior. By the third day, a Government crisis was just around the corner. Some M.P.s thought that Winston Churchill, sick abed with a cold and fever, would have to appear to save his Government. But a Laborite saved the day: wiry, grey-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison actually made no more concessions than Sir John or Sir Kingsley had made, but he stated the Government case with eloquent common sense. Morrison's clincher: Out of 23 Beveridge proposals, the Government had rejected only one (conversion of industrial insurance from a private to a public function); of the remaining...
...Savior of Stalingrad and commander in chief of the armies threatening the German flank in the Caucasus from the northeast is Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, 50. Stocky, brown-haired, he was born in the Ukraine, left a farm to join the Czarist army in 1913. After the peace he organized guerrilla bands to fight the Germans in the Ukraine, served during the Civil War as a cavalry officer under Semion Budenny. When the Germans invaded Russia, Yeremenko assumed command of an army west of Moscow, played a leading role in the defense of the capital, shifted to Stalingrad when...
...India possesses deeply religious consciousness, but the spiritual aspirations of the Indians have not yet been fulfilled. They also await a savior...
...Japanese are not quite so confident that the Filipinos are awaiting a savior. Said the broadcast: "The Filipinos are a very superficial people, thoroughly demoralized by the American example. Nevertheless the Filipinos have several characteristics in common with the Japanese. They are fairly pious. When they make money, they prepare magnificent, costly coffins for their parents, even while they are alive, thereby comforting their declining years. If we Japanese can develop Filipino filial piety in other directions, there is some hope that the Filipinos may become a decent people...