Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 700 professional philosophers from 25 countries assembled in Amsterdam to amass what truth they could. The occasion was the tenth International Congress of Philosophy, which met in the fern-draped auditorium of Amsterdam University. Its theme: Man, Mankind and (driving home the point) Humanity...
...show that Soviet countries do not purge all those who disagree with Communism, Kolman pointed to Charles University's Jan B. Kozak, an avowed but browbeaten non-Marxist who had come to Amsterdam as an "innocent front" for Czechoslovakia's Marxist delegation. As Kolman spoke, the old professor turned his face away...
...contingent of U.S. delegates headed for the world assembly of the International Council of Christian Churches in Amsterdam stopped off at Orly Airport in Paris to denounce the "day of mourning" called for Aug. 22 by a group of Protestant ministers (TIME, Aug. 16). Said the group: "The position taken is unbiblical, unpatriotic, and un-American ... To teach youth to be conscientious objectors, to defy lawful civil authority ... is to use the church as a fifth column...
Princess Margaret, 18, faced her first trip outside the Empire next fortnight: a hop to Amsterdam, where she would officially represent her folks at Juliana's investiture...
World Council of Churches (Wed. 1:15 p.m., Mutual). Special broadcast from Amsterdam of the year's largest international church conference...