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...concealing its designs on Germany. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy recently told a U.S. congressional committee that he expected the Reds to force a "real crisis" in Germany this spring. The Communists had blared out their plans for a German youth march on Western Berlin on Whitsunday, May 28. By dint of intensive preparations the Western allies now considered themselves ready to meet the Communist boys & girls. But nobody in Germany had any serious plans for coping with the Red army...
Whitsuntide, when the dead Christ's Apostles began work in earnest, had been chosen by Adolf Hitler to get his total war under way. Whitsunday is a big British holiday but the holiday was canceled and the Government called on every Briton to keep a sharp eye aloft for Nazi invaders. King George called 2,500,000 more conscripts to the colors, and the War Office announced that soon there will be in the British Isles some 4,500,000 prospective soldiers in various stages of training...
...Whitsunday Pete Fitzgerald knelt before the white-&-gold altar of Seattle's big St. James's Cathedral, received from Bishop Shaughnessy the Pope's reward...
...June 23, when there is no night in Sweden and the people dance around the maypoles. In England last week 500,000 people saw Blue Peter win the Derby; cars were leaving London at the rate of 48,000 an hour; railroads put on 2,500 special trains for Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between 20 and 21 registered for the draft, and labor's periodic stirring, signalized by recent rent...
...altar flowers on a given Sunday can express the season-white for All Saints' Day, red for Whitsunday-or they may be a memorial. . . . For instance, one Sunday the flowers at the Church of the Ascension were given in memory of a warrior son lost on the field of battle. Glorious spears of gladiolus were selected in a vivid, singing red-a most triumphant note all through the worship, that...