Word: van
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Nonsense. If TIME's writer had taken the trouble to read anything Vansittart has written, he would not have used so silly a word. Such misrepresentations of "Vansittartism" date from the embarrassed retorts of English appeasers of a few years ago to "Van's" vigorous realism about Germany. One would think that his recent book-which has a very clear chapter about what "Vansittartism" is and is not-was enough to dispose of the myth that there is anything schrecklich about his proposals...
...first public statement in its history, the Broederbond struck back at its ancient enemy Smuts, announced that the Bond would fight Smuts in & out of Parliament. Said the Bond's statement, signed by two members, Christoffel Johannes van Rooy and Ivanhoe Makepeace Lombard: "The Broederbond was born of a deep conviction that the Afrikaner nation was planted here by God's hand. The Prime Minister is trying to stone us in his ignorance...
...Seconds over Tokyo (Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker; TIME...
...Belgium King Leopold surrendered, but Cardinal van Roey, heroic successor to heroic Cardinal Mercier, publicly forswore Catholic collaboration with "an oppressive regime" and forbade his priests to give the sacrament to anyone wearing the German uniform. Rather than let the Nazis prostitute the educational system, he closed the schools and universities. Throughout Europe, when the universities and the press and the writers and philosophers were silenced, "only the churches"-in the words of Albert Einstein-"stood squarely across the path of Hitler...
...Button & Co. last June set aside enough paper for 40,000 copies of Van Wyck Brooks's The World of Washington Irving, figuring that it would see them through this year. But the Book-of-the-Month Club took the book, and sales rocketed. Button ran out of paper. (Most publishers of best-sellers exhausted their paper stocks in August or September.) To keep the book in print, and give Author Brooks the benefit of Christmas sales. Button turned over their publishing rights to the 100-year-old Philadelphia publishing house of Blakiston...