Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no reference to religious freedom in the Roosevelt-Churchill blueprint of tomorrow's world. This will come as a disappointment to Protestants, Catholics and Jews, many of whom are now in jails and concentration camps because they would not surrender the right to worship God each in his own way.-Dr. Walter Van Kirk, secretary of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just & Durable Peace...
Rudyard Kipling, as a child, under a tyrant aunt, suffered six years of a similar hell; but his wound distorted rather than strengthened his bow. As he grew older, he transposed the objects of his hatred and his fear; developed a weakling's abject worship of authority, and became the celebrant of class against mass, of system against the individual, of the animal, even of the machine, against the human. Wilson brilliantly points out the shifts and tightenings of these allegiances as they develop in Kipling's stories. He also points out that though Kipling is now neglected...
...London's first mosque, planned as a place of worship for the Moslem soldiers & sailors in England and as the "nucleus of a great mosque and Islamic cultural center to be built after the war," was opened by Hassan Nachat Pacha, Egyptian Ambassador to Britain...
Perhaps Franklin Roosevelt smiled inwardly at that example of State Department mentality-a mentality which might have been shocked by John Dillinger's 10th bank robbery-but he approved it. The statement continued: "The President has declared that the United States maintains that freedom to worship God as their consciences dictate is the great and fundamental right of all people. This right has been denied to their peoples by both the Nazi and the Soviet Governments. . . . Any defense against Hitlerism, any rallying of the forces opposing Hitlerism, from whatever source these forces may spring, will hasten the eventual downfall...
...Governor of Szechwan Province comes each Sunday morning to worship at the once-beleaguered university chapel in Chengtu. In Chungking, the Christian leader of China rules with his Christian wife, aided by a Christian Finance Minister and a host of other Christian officials...