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...Arthur, a devout Quaker, lifelong teetotaler and bachelor, more philosopher than scientist, devoted his speculations mostly to the borderland between science and religion. Interested in the questions that science could not answer, he once remarked: "What do we really observe? Relativity theory has returned one answer-we only observe relations. Quantum theory returns another answer-we only observe probabilities...
Snug in her cozy Suffolk home, small, bright-eyed, merry Lady (Dorothea) Gibb read an article by famed Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg exhorting his fellow Russians to hate the Nazis harder than ever. To so devout a Quaker as 83-year-old Lady Gibb, such talk was abhorrent. She penned a note to Comrade Ehrenburg, told him he was filling Russian minds "with something very old and evil, a thirst for vengeance after victory. . . . This does not bring happiness to the victor but only leads to sorrow and evil in the future...
...Even devout Brackenites swallowed hard at this proposal to make Canada over into a managed economy. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Pretty advanced thinking...
...Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid music of Deep River...
...target? Near the center of it was Juan Domingo Perón, Vice President, Minister of War, Secretary of Labor and Welfare, master of President Farrell and dominant figure in the military government. Perón has apparently swung from extreme to moderate nationalism. That is, as a devout Argentine-firster, he no longer considers either hatred of the Yanquis or bundling with the Axis indispensable to his career. Hull's blast inferentially called for a governmental house cleaning of all pro-Axis personalities, a national house cleaning of all German business enterprises. Perón threw some Axiphiles...