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Contacted yesterday, von Stade would neither affirm nor deny the story...
...Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good men of all nations, races and religions...
...wire a most unusual man, inspire legitamate indiggnation on the part of other religious bodies represented at the college. In the interests of fairness they would demand General Education courses on their own religions acceptance of these courses would clutter up the catalogue and denial of them would affirm Harvard's official support of one particular religion. The partisan furor stirred up, furthermore, would go a long way towards undermining the original purpose of the course--to acquaint students with the spirit common to all religions...
Unruffled Manner. "Foreign correspondents," one fourth leader observes, "often attribute the content of a dispatch to 'usually well-informed circles,' and there is something very striking about the phrase. The choice of adverb is peculiarly pregnant, contriving as it does simultaneously to affirm faith and to adumbrate doubt. It implies that the correspondent has found these circles to be reliable in the past, but it sounds at the same time a note of caution. 'You know what these foreigners are,' it seems to say; 'don't blame me if they've got hold...
...certainly hard to understand why a convinced non-Communist should make it a matter of absolute and ultimate principle to refuse to affirm he is not a member of the Communist party-needless as the affirmation...