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Meeting in Savannah, Georgia's Baptist Convention got ready to vote on the report of its Social Service Committee: ". . . That the Christian people of Georgia be urged to apply the principles of Jesus in a serious effort to allay the growing race tensions so spotlighted by the lynchings in Georgia and the recent Columbians Inc. disturbances in Atlanta." Up jumped ex-Navy Chaplain Joseph A. Rabun, 39, new pastor of the McRae Baptist Church, where rabble-rousing, Governor-elect Gene Talmadge is the leading lay member. Shouted Pastor Rabun: "That is not strong enough! We need to condemn with...
...years of non-recognition by this country. And, in the United States, distrust of the Comintern has flared up with new intensity in direct ratio to every instance of Russian obstructionism of Slavic temperamentalism in the United Nations. The principal problem of the Paris peacemakers has been to allay the fear and distrust between nations that is the legacy of World Wars...
...said the directors. In effect, this was a U.S. concession made to allay British fears over their vital export trade, which might easily be ruined, as it was in the late '20s, by pegging the pound too high. Even though revaluations of more than 10% would still require Fund approval, some economists groused that the Fund's chief club against the practice of "exporting unemployment" had now been whittled down to twig-size. But it was an easy concession for the U.S. to make. With wages and other costs skyrocketing, the U.S. might wake...
...Allay immediately any suspicions that it will use The Bomb...
...Psychology. Meanwhile Soviet planners must judge between the demands on the national resources made by poverty at home and danger abroad. To allay the former they exaggerate the latter...