Word: war-torn
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...bombed church in Britain (2,659 through March 21) will be rebuilt on its old site until an interdenominational Church Damages Commission has approved the location. So reported the Rev. Edgar Chandler of Boston, just back from two months in war-torn England on behalf of the Congregational and Christian Church and World Council of Churches. Already the Church Damages Commission has begun blueprints for interfaith regional planning after the war. Insurance money collected on damages to many old churches in declining neighborhoods will be used to build new churches in growing suburbs, distributing the parishes of different denominations...
...every way they can. They believe in tackling troubles at their root. In World War I this philosophy led them to start rebuilding ruined French villages even before the Armistice. Afterwards they fed starving children, stopped epidemics, restocked whole provinces with farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe. Last week Marshal Pétain received Quaker Howard Kershner at Vichy, expressed "profound gratitude...
...generation that would have to live in the war-torn chaos which the interventionists are trying to force on us. In the defence of America we are ready for any sacrifice, but for America's sake and democracy's we feel obliged to submit to you our firm belief that we have the strength to preserve democracy in the Western Hemisphere and that we must not dissipate this strength in European and Asiatic wars...
Faced with knottier problems in war-torn 1940, Pinedo last month announced that his exchange control had temporarily suspended all applications for outgoing U. S. dollar-exchange permits-in effect a blockade of all U. S. products coming into Argentina. Later it was blandly announced that this was not a blockade, but a sort of bookkeeper's holiday to allow experts to study "the dollar situation." For Argentina, the dollar situation was serious. Her exports to Belgium, The Netherlands and France have stopped, and her sales to Great Britain no longer produce any foreign exchange, because sterling exports...
Foreign Cattle. The veterinarians were worried over horses and cattle in war-torn countries. Dr. Cassius Way of Manhattan, an internationally noted horse doctor, told his colleagues that thousands of fine breeding and milk cows in the Low Countries had been slaughtered by the invading Germans. Next winter, he prophesied, hordes of animals will fall sick, may transmit many of their diseases to human beings...