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...World Faith (TIME, Sept. 2), the reviewer concludes with a quoted sentence which he says is my idea of "the world faith of the future." The sentence is this: "God is in his world, but Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed are in their little private closets, and we shall thank them, but never return to them...
...Latin America it seemed that the war must become worldwide, with South America as the prize. South America's outspoken hostility to the three Axis powers made the U. S. thank God it had made friends with its neighbors in the south. Both German and Italian newspapers warned that the initial Axis attack, if it came, would be directed at South America...
...clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold by greeting each bit of sparse applause with a tender "Thank you, mother...
...week: "Join the Army and escape the war." Before the House of Commons Winston Churchill declared that, of 2,000 deaths in two weeks' raids, only one-fortieth were military casualties. Noncombatants were really getting it. One Army officer, surveying the ruins of an Oxford Street store, remarked: "Thank God I'm not a civilian...
...polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week for playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug-in much the same way as they now take the chorus of inner "Thank God for the A. F. S.' . . . There never was a force in the history of service that had a more terrible baptism of fire...