Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a call was issued to U.S. churches: on Sunday Aug. 22 they were asked to ring their bells once each hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bells will summon Christians to prayer. On that day, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 450 Christian men & women delegates will begin a meeting that has been called the most significant occasion since the Protestant Reformation-the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches...
This paradox, and the propaganda piffle which surrounded it, was bound to baffle almost anyone in or out of this world. Even such worldlings as the U.S. Embassy staff in Paris were confused-Ambassador Jefferson Caffery last week found it necessary to summon them all to a special briefing session. How could you explain the situation to a plain American, or a Frenchman-or to a man from Mars? The situation was really sublimely simple...
...this bewildering city of ruins and lilacs, Buicks and rubble-trains, prostitutes and patriots, eye and mind struggle to summon order and sense from disorder and madness; they seek for symbols. The great statue of Frederick the Great, still boxed in brick against bombs that have not fallen for three years-is this the city's sly hint of new German militarism waiting another chance? The great Soviet tank on the Potsdamer Chaussee, mounted on concrete-does it mean something that it faces out from the city, pointed westward? The American signs-are they unintentionally pointed in announcing: "Think...
...Kremlin knew that his Italian defeat was hot irretrievable (see FOREIGN NEWS). Meanwhile there were other directions in which to move and strike. One possibility, of which some Americans became suddenly aware last week, was not to strike at all, but to summon up a spell of sweetness & light...
...this year if four years ago we had possessed a political field force equal in talent and capacity to our military commands and forces in Europe. The equivalent mistake in 1948 would be to leave the execution of the Marshall Plan to businessmen, economists and kindred specialists. We must summon the finest political intelligence that we can assemble, arm it with adequate tools and direction, and place it in the field with our dollars...