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...believe that the present crisis in human history exceeds in magnitude and in spiritual import any that has ever preceded it. ... No words can adequately appraise the splendor of comradeship, courage and self-sacrifice shown by so many of our people. These qualities are found in non-Christians as well as in Christians. They are of God wherever found. . . . Let us so turn to God now that if in His providence victory is ours, we may neither waste nor misuse the terrible responsibility of victory but may turn it to the service of God's laws in the reordering...
Last week Venetians had a chance to forget for an hour or so the scarcity of tourists, the scariness of the war, watching a little parade file into the pink splendor of the Doges' Palace. Occasion: the signing up of the ninth member of the Axis team, the rookie puppet State of Croatia...
...encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia's assistance to Free China. It was hoped that the last move would throw...
...arena was transformed into a nursery lotus land. Even the tanbark had changed color, to a bright blue. Over it, one after another, rolled glorious floats and glittering equipages of white and gold, bearing hundreds of characters from Mother Goose. Wheeling and cavorting came Old King Cole, in canopied splendor suspended between four elephants; ranks of pretty maids with cockleshells; a cow that literally leaped over the moon...
...night as dark as doom, at all times filthy enough to guarantee the survival only of the fittest. Londoners were so energetic that despite a generous round of fairs, festivals, bear-baitings and other formal diversions, they repeatedly broke forth in impromptu mass hell-raising. They loved sport, splendor, cruelty, gayety, anarchy. There was no regular police force in London until...