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...religion make a truly practical contribution toward the preservation of democracy against the threat of totalitarianism? What is the real nature of the forces of disintegration that are at work today? How do they function? Is it possible to render them powerless by opposing them with forces of integration? If so, how? The nature of the threatening conditions must be investigated and the endeavor must be made to find means by which they can be rendered harmless...
This week all these threats were made more ominous by a new threat. Over the cities of southern and eastern Sweden and the districts behind the frontier of Norway dozens of snooping Nazi planes appeared. Anti-aircraft fire drove some of them off. Three or four were reported shot down and one fell in flames before a Swedish pursuit plane...
Dynasty. Sweden's 81-year-old King Gustaf, whose tennis-playing year after year so amazed Europe, is no longer as hale as he once was. The problems of the Russo-Finnish war and the growing threat to his country's independence have aged him. This year, for the first time in many a year, things looked so bad at home that he was unable to take his winter vacation on the Riviera. Last week he and the Crown Prince attended meetings of the Council of Ministers, which met nearly every day to discuss the growing threat...
...first time in six months Allied anti-aircraft fire began to work effectively in this sector. . . . The long arm of the French heavy artillery . . . became a serious threat to the German pontoon-building operations...
...everything to lose if an outsider takes over this treasure trove. Loss of Dutch oil combined with a possible U. S. embargo would be mortal. On the other hand, taking The Netherlands Empire itself would at one stroke accomplish Japan's New Order. Instead of cowering before the threat of an oil embargo, she could herself threaten a rubber and tin embargo against the U. S. She would possess islands from which she could conveniently attack Singapore. She would be able to snip off Hong Kong, Indo-China, the Philippines from the Western World...