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» Although the Russians still held Liinahamari and Petsamo, the Finns were sure enough of their success to say in a cautious communiqué: "The winter war in the north is ours."
There he proved himself a builder and money-raiser. Small, slight, Archbishop Stritch with his grey hair looks older than his 52 years. He walks a great deal (often at night), reads rapidly, copiously, sleeps later than most prelates. (He rose at 9:30 the day his appointment was made...
"Opinion is, and probably will be for some time to come, divided on the matter," he commented. "Zealous denominationalists suspect an institution like ours of being deficient at most of the crucial points. But persons who are more interested in religions as a whole than in denominations, think that we...
"The situation is even more complicated." he declared, "by the extreme disagreement between Japan's foreign policy and ours. They talk of a new order in East Asia, an order dominated by Japan and subordinating all the great western powers."
This must be the French cousin of our story. Or is ours the American version of the French story? Is there an English cousin? Will this story pop up wherever Hitler's mere existence is a blight or a threat? It is almost a folk tale already. I should...