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...Vatican daily Osservatore Romano hailed Stalin's statement that the world wants peace: "[Stalin] affirms that only the flame of peace must be fed. That is Christian. There are those who question" Stalin's motives in making the statement -and "this is less Christian...
...reached them, the gas in their stomachs and intestines expanded explosively, rupturing the tissues. Then came the blast, at 500 to 1,000 miles per hour, sweeping them over the ground, along with the churned-up rubble and blazing wood. At first, the blast was as hot as a flame. Even at 4,200 feet from the bomb-point, its pressure was 24 times greater than that of the 1926 Miami hurricane...
...this simple ceremony at the First Unitarian Church of Essex County (Orange, N.J.), Pierre Van Paassen, anti-fascist and best-selling author, will become a Unitarian minister. Van Paassen will not have a church. He plans to write and preach throughout the country in the belief that "a small flame can set an immense heap of wood on fire...
Food ran low; the Erma's passengers ate but one meal a day. To cook it, one woman held a Primus stove down on the deck, a second held a pan to the flame. Often the stove bounced and rolled; food and fuel spilled, threatening the boat with fire. Day after day the shivering women read aloud to quiet their shivering children; during the worst of the storms the men on deck sang to reassure them. Finally a U.S. destroyer sighted the dingy sailboat, pulled alongside. Her crew passed down food, cigarets, fuel. The Erma was 100 miles...
...Brideshead] did not know the uses to which their work would descend. . . . Something quite remote from anything [they] intended has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time: a small red flame . . . relit before the . . . doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders...