Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amos, who was a major in the British Army, later a Haganah fighter, recently married a British Christian. Ben-Gurion did not hold her faith against her; he gathered up an armload of Jewish histories and Zionist tracts, mailed them to her so that she would understand her adopted country...
Israelis who do not understand the danger of too much success are impatient at British and U.S. concern for Arab friendship. They shout "Oil!" as if nothing but profits were involved. The same oil, which the Arabs can shut off, is an essential part of the world's hope of recovery; without that recovery, the dream of Israel as a prosperous trading nation cannot come true. The same oil is an essential part of the defense of the West. Without that defense Israel, a democratic state, is lost...
...Gothic buildings are often fine, yet that does not dictate that all new buildings be Gothic," wrote Lescaze. "How curious that men who admire Chartres Cathedral should still fail to understand Chartres' great lesson-with one of its towers Romanesque, the other Gothic; one built 400 years after the first but not as a Romanesque copy of the first-namely, that architecture can only be of its time...
Into Battle. Theologian Brunner lost no time in challenging this position. In an open letter to Earth in the same publication he said that he was unable to understand why Earth, one of the first and most uncompromising opponents of Naziism, has not taken a similar stand against Communism-and long since. Is not Communism totalitarianism? Brunner asked. And is not totalitarianism "in principle" unrighteous and inhuman? Must not Christians join in this battle? To remain silent is to deny a fundamental Christian principle, which Christians must never...
...Washington she would telephone him and say, "This is Helen" (to some others she was "Joan" or "Mary") and arrange to meet him. Some times it was at a drugstore across from the Willard Hotel; some times it was at the National Gallery of Art. Did Remington understand what she wanted? Said Elizabeth Bentley: "Certainly." At their meetings, Remington was "very nervous, very jittery, obviously scared to death that anybody would find out he was doing this." But, said Miss Bentley, he brought her "scraps of paper"-notes about aircraft production-and once he brought her "a formula for making...