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...Crow, Pope & Land Enterprises, one of Atlanta's largest real estate developers. Having grown up on a tiny Georgia farm, he feels entitled to declare: "This country has always been a place where anyone who was willing to work at it could rise up to some degree." He is antiracist: "If someone asked my wife to sit in the back of the bus, I'd be the meanest man alive." He explains part of the reason he is voting for Nixon: "The political values of this country are mainly middleclass. Because this group believes in human rights, people have sometimes...
...government of Premier Johannes Vorster. While Vorster has repeatedly warned clerics to stay out of "politics," clergymen, especially a number of outspoken Anglicans, have steadfastly refused to ignore apartheid. Two events late last year exacerbated the conflict. After the World Council of Churches voted a $200,000 grant to "antiracist" liberation groups in Africa and elsewhere (TIME, Oct. 5), W.C.C. member churches refused to accede to Vorster's demand that they quit the organization. Then came a visit from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, who not only refused to counsel the clergy away from...
...What in God's name does the World Council of Churches think it is doing?" demanded the Johannesburg Star. The easiest part of the answer: it is giving $200,000 to "antiracist" organizations. The hard part: much of the money goes to black African liberation movements (some Communist supported) involved in various stages of violent subversion against white minority regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia, and the Portuguese colonies...
...W.C.C. explains that its money will go for welfare, not warfare, though Director of Communications Albert van den Heuvel admits that "these two aspects may sometimes overlap." He says that the W.C.C. is not endorsing revolutionary violence, but it no longer rules out aid to "antiracist organizations." In recent years, many liberal Protestants have been moving in two directions at once. Despite their growing opposition to the use of American arms in Viet Nam, they have come to accept violence when used by "oppressed peoples." Thus the grants should have come as no surprise. Last year a W.C.C. sponsored conference...
...Central Committee's action was a retreat from the determinedly avantgarde position adopted last May by the council's own international Consultation on Racism (TIME, June 6), which favored church support of antiracist revolutionary movements and compensation for those "exploited" by capitalism. But in addition to its $500,000 allocation, the committee did call on member churches to give "a significant portion of their total resources to orga nizations of the racially oppressed." One way that churches might help was to make land available "free or at low cost" for community development...