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...tells of a visit he made to Chungking. . . . Seven times that day Japanese planes had raided the city and dropped bombs. The Generalissimo explained that they were trying to find out where he was staying. After a simple dinner the visitor was asked to remain for evening devotions. They knelt together, and first Madame Chiang offered a prayer, then the guest prayed, and finally the Generalissimo. He prayed for the American people to whom his guest was going, then for his own Chinese people, and finally for the Japanese people, whose representatives that day seven times -had tried to kill...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...
They amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...
...Jihlava, instead of suffering "severe measures," walked boldly into the ancient Greek Orthodox Church of Ilie Gorgani in Bucharest, through the floodlit, green-draped entrance, past the urns of burning incense on the stone stairway. Before the altar, where 26 uniformed Iron Guard youths stood at attention, they knelt, joined the solemn prayers of the priests over the candlelit caskets of Codreanu and his "martyred" followers...
...wholly new peace of collaboration. Germany may prefer the new method to the misery, strife, repressions and conflicts of peace in the old manner. . . . First choice of course rests with the victor. . . .If all roads are closed to us, we shall know how to suffer and wait." Thus France knelt to her conqueror...