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...Declaration and the League Mandate to help establish a Jewish State in Palestine, the British have been unwilling to carry out their promise because the Arabs threatened their security and oil in the Middle East. Commissions returned from Palestine with trumped-up findings which "proved" that Palestine could not absorb further immigration while Arabs were pouring into Palestine from the East, attracted by the lure of high Jewish wages. Arab-Jewish friction was played up and further immigration was halted. Then War came, and the question was shelved...
...will now be asked: What goal does the Episcopal Church have in view for the ecumenical movement? . . . Does the Anglican communion envisage a united church in terms which embrace all non-Roman churches, or does its enthusiasm for unity derive from the expectation that the Episcopal Church will itself absorb all other churches into its own ecclesiastical system . . . The attitude revealed at Philadelphia will be interpreted as a disclosure of the sectarian isolationism of the Episcopal Church. . . . [Its] prestige . . . as a leader in this great [unity] enterprise has been damaged, if not forfeited...
...politics absorb Evita. Recently a Russian trade commissioner came to argue the merits of expanded Russo-Argentine trade. The Russian pressed his case but Perón played wary poker. "First of all I am an Argentine," he said, "but second I am an americano." "And besides," Evita broke in, "the Americans have the atomic bomb...
Will U.S. whites eventually absorb the nation's Negroes-as Italy, Mexico and Portugal have absorbed theirs? So thought James Bryce, and so, for more than a generation, have thought many sociologists. "It is now estimated," wrote Author Herbert Asbury in Collier's last week, "that there are at least between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 persons in the U.S., supposed to be white, who possess Negro blood. . . . Authorities generally agree that between 15,000 and 30,000 . . . Negroes go over to the white side every year...
...million program to provide classrooms, laboratories and other facilities to help colleges absorb G.I.s...