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...There can be no real peace between the cross and the swastika. National socialism is essentially unchristian and antichristian. . . ." Though the conflict between Christianity and Naziism seems inevitable now, it did not seem so when Hitler came into power. Catholics and Protestants alike helped his coup d'état. Martin Niemoller himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret did he tell his confidant Hermann Rauschning: "The parsons will be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: German Martyrs | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Suffering Londoners were promised eventual tit for tat on Berliners and the Air Ministry talked about new & better aircraft with which it would step up the mighty sky war this winter. At last standardized were U. S. and British production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Higher & Fewer | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Ever since the Russian invasion of Finland began, citizens of Moscow, Idaho (pop. 5,500) have been restive about their town's name. When the Indians used to go to this fertile valley at the foot of the Thatuna Hills to gather camas roots, they called the place Tat-Kin-Mah, which means the land of the spotted deer. First white settlers called it Paradise, and Paradise Valley it remained until 1876, when President Grant named the post office Moscow. Because there was a good deal of U. S. sympathy for Russia in the Crimean War, there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Name | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim went to Vaasa. Late in January the Social Democrats seized the government, proclaimed Finland a Socialist Workers Republic. Instead of the coup d'état they had planned, they got a civil war. A few White members of the Senate escaped from Helsinki to Vaasa, proclaimed themselves the legal government of Finland, appointed Mannerheim Commander in Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Hit Them in the Belly | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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