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Ordeal and Rebirth. Yet when the war came, the legends of resistance seeping out of occupied countries were starred with names of heroic men of God. Niemöller, Faulhaber and Galen in Germany itself, Hlond in Poland, De Jong in Holland, Damaskinos* in Greece and the aged Patriarch Gavrilo Dozich in Yugoslavia, all stood firm against the Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active...
...Streets Are Guarded (by Laurence Stallings; produced by John C. Wilson). Twenty years ago Playwright Stallings co-authored the tough, lusty What Price Glory?, the best American play about World War I. The Streets Are Guarded, a play about World War II, tells a fuzzy story about a heroic marine who pulls off a perilous sortie against the Japs. With a fever-ridden fanatically religious pharmacist's mate acting as Greek chorus, it seems throughout to symbolize a modern miracle. But what it says at the end is that such "miracles" are the everyday stuff of soldiering...
...Unseen Players. The Japs ran into heroic but weak defense. Their heavy-gunned battleships closed on the U.S. escort carriers, which launched their planes, then gallantly fought with 5-inch guns while they ran a losing race to the south. The two destroyers and the destroyer escort piled in after the manner of their kind, launched torpedoes, got some hits, were sunk. But by this time part of Halsey's force had wheeled away from the northern battle and was tearing south again. Would it be in time to save the Leyte shipping from disaster...
...soldiers that there is still one commodity at home not on the ration list. Circulars disseminated by this forthright organization, picked up by Allied troops in captured German positions, read as follows: "Dear Front Soldier: When will you come back on leave? . . . Back at home we know of your heroic struggle ; however, we do understand that even the bravest get tired and that they need a soft pillow, tenderness and real pleasure...
America is not a land of ease. We have not paused from action to beget Heroic simile and song and frieze; We have no empire of the mind as yet, Nor have we shed our light within the grave; But, as the sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings...