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...tucked into his boots, before the millions-on Lenin's tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...
...late in the afternoon and the new Premier was in a hurry. But one matter had first to be attended to. He hastened to Yasukuni shrine, attended the deification ceremonies for 15,000 war dead newly fallen in China. He stopped, too, to pray briefly at the shrine of Emperor Meiji, founder of the Empire, and at the shrine of Admiral Togo, conqueror of the Russians...
...favorable and unfavorable comment, depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937 by the air force of insurgent General France. It was done by Picasso for the Loyalist government as a condemnation of the raid which virtually annihilated the population and town of the sacred Basque shrine...
...meeting here today to dedicate a new shrine of freedom. By this action we are bearing true witness to the faith that is in us-simple faith in the freedom of democracy in the world...
Bishop Abe reported that before Japanese Christians agreed to the Government's insistence that they take part in Shrine Shinto ceremonies, the Government gave written assurance that the observance is purely patriotic (like uncovering at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier) and in no way religious. On the same grounds...