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...first Communist State? In an amazing four-month odyssey Francis Spellman had journeyed about 15,000 miles, stopped in 16 lands;* he would go on to India and China. He had chatted with soldiers in Britain, given alms in Malta, scanned the front in Tunisia, prayed in Jerusalem. Yet he had spent many hours in secret talk with statesmen and dignitaries, and around his plump, energetic figure swirled a fog of rumor and speculation. In that fog last week the Allied and the Axis world thought it could see great significance: the Vatican expected and desired a United Nations victory...
Cabbage for Frenchmen. The only unrationed foods in France are rutabagas, topinambous (Jerusalem artichokes) and cabbage. Rationing applies to restaurants as well as stores. The combined butter, fat and oil ration is about three and a half ounces a week a person (compared to eight ounces in Britain). For five precious coupons, a Frenchman supping at a restaurant is lucky to get watery soup, a dab of meat, an inch-square wafer of cheese. The French wine allowance is six liters (about six quarts) monthly a person...
...From my captors I asked but one thing-the Bible. . . . The greatness and love of Christ burst upon me with a new inspiration, increasing my strength to struggle against evil, to overcome temptation and to uphold righteousness. . . . When Christ entered Jerusalem the last time He knew the danger ahead, but triumphantly He rode into the city...
Trips to the Mediterranean served only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year...
...Africa TIME'S resident correspondent in Cairo, Harry Zinder, knows practically every newsmaker in the Middle East, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who claims descent from Mohammed but has blue eyes and a blond beard) to stern, Bible-quoting General Montgomery of the British Eighth Army (who can't stand having his soldiers cough when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve...