Word: mission
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comrade Suritz is a seasoned Soviet diplomat. He once headed a Soviet mission to Afghanistan, where he greased Afghan palms so well that that mountainous kingdom came to lean toward the Soviet Union more than toward Great Britain. Later he laid the foundation for a long Turkish-Russian friendship, and still later, Jew though he is, he became the Soviet Ambassador to the Jew-baiting Nazis. Adolf Hitler treated him with all honor, however, and modified the famed anti-Semitic Nürnberg laws so that the Ambassador could keep Aryan scrub women and maids under 45 years...
...sick of a war which is never won, eaten with worry for home and family. If they try to desert, Chinese fall on them and kill them. Missionaries in Shansi report that Japanese often steal inside mission compounds to cry, or come to the gates to whimper and beg for little comforts. Superstitions are epidemic. Nearly every dead Japanese soldier has on him a charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating...
...Field Marshal) the Duke of Windsor, 45. He traveled (and slept) in a caravan consisting of a trailer towed by a small coupe. Unlike his brother and successor on the throne, who was kept well back and whose trail he did not cross, he visited the foremost zones. His mission: to inquire into and report on the men's morale, quality of food and quarters, supply of toothbrushes, cigarets and the like, requests for reading matter. Every night, by a dim blue light in the trailer, he wrote a letter to his Duchess, who plans...
...Chose for their 1940 president Phi Beta Kappa Prentis of Armstrong Cork. Said he: Businessmen "must recognize their historical mission as preservers of human liberty . . . eliminate unethical practices in their own enterprises ... be keenly conscious of the social significance of their day-by-day decisions ... be industrial statesmen rather than mere businessmen...
...will be for some time to come, divided on the matter," he commented. "Zealous denominationalists suspect an institution like ours of being deficient at most of the crucial points. But persons who are more interested in religions as a whole than in denominations, think that we have a distinctive mission . . . . The drift of the times is away from further sectarianism and towards interdenominationalism and even formal Church unions. Our nonsectarian character, therefore, would not seem to unfit us for the future...