Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more desperate circumstances. At that time Napoleon had invaded Spain and had set his brother Joseph on the throne at Madrid, "Loyalist" Spain had been reduced to only a small area north of Cadiz and isolated cities, far less than the approximately 50,000 square miles the Government still holds. Yet by 1814 the "Loyalists" of 1812 (with the considerable help of the Duke of Wellington's British Army) had cleared Napoleon's Army out and were again in full control of the country...
Last week, still feeling jounced from his 13 days of flying, Bishop Ryan rested at Palm Beach. In a message addressed to "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amateur Fisherman" and signed "Bishop James Ryan, Amateur Diplomat," he informed the President of his return. In Washington, Father Sheehy delivered to Secretary of State Hull a confidential report on the two churchmen's able job of amateur diplomacy. Its gist: "The foundation has been laid for a 'Catholic front' to protect democracy in this hemisphere...
...eight largest States exchange diplomatic representatives with the Vatican. Brazil runs neck-&-neck with Italy as the world's largest Catholic State, although its 40,000,000 Catholics are shepherded by only 6,000 priests.* Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy, looking businesslike to South American churchmen, who still wear their soutanes in the street, visited papal nuncios and hierarchs, talked with them in Italian and French, found everywhere that Latin American prelates look to the U. S. hierarchy for social and cultural leadership-a leadership which has been slow in materializing...
...were revoked, and only a few special temporary permits were granted for practice in Jewish communities. Although Germany now faces a shortage of trained physicians and has been compelled to reduce the period of medical education by two full years, more than one-half of the ostracized Jewish physicians still remain in Germany, helpless and impoverished. Many of them committed suicide, and about 60 are now practicing in Britain. Most of those physicians lucky enough to escape have come...
...Erin's assigned frequency. Officially assigned on the same frequency are Palermo and Catania, Italy. With all three going at once in opposition, all England usually hears of Radio-Eireann is an occasional bit of brogue breaking through a great and garlicky palaver. Last week Radio-Eireann had still another plaint. For the infrequent times Athlone can get its signals across, some British newspapers have been failing to list its programs...