Word: appomattox
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...Filipinos last week, it looked like Appomattox. Lean young Luis Taruc (34), canebrake Marxist and supreme commander of the outlawed Hukbalahaps (TIME, May 31), had come out of hiding to accept the government's unconditional amnesty for himself and some 50,000 followers...
...themselves. They were standing by in the swamps of Central Luzon to see whether the government would go ahead with the land redistribution the Huks demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal cup of better relations...
...knows his destiny, nor does any nation. The destiny that lay beyond Yorktown and Appomattox and Manila Bay, that lay mockingly behind a slogan ("Make the World Safe for Democracy") at Belleau Wood, took a new and decisive turn last year. It was in 1947 that the U.S. people, not quite realizing the full import of their act, perhaps not yet mature enough to accept all its responsibilities, took upon their shoulders the leadership of the world...
...South is still paying for the Civil War. In the 82nd year after Appomattox, twelve southern states shelled out more than $3,000,000 in pensions for Confederate veterans, their dependents and the Negro servants who followed them into service. The veterans themselves now numbered fewer than 100 (highest number in one state: 14 in Mississippi). But Confederate soldiers are still survived by 5,000 widows. Notable example: 79-year-old Helen Longstreet, widow of famed General James Longstreet...
Unmindful of Appomattox, the Baptists have been content to remain divided, because: 1) Southern Baptists are generally more Calvinist-i.e., hard-shelled-than the Northern variety; 2) basic Baptist policy abhors organization and church discipline. Baptists will cautiously unite to form a "conference," but not a Church. "Messengers" rather than delegates attend the conventions, which make no rules or decisions that might hobble the independence of each local congregation. (For similar reasons, the Southern Baptist Convention is the biggest Protestant group that refuses to join the Federal Council of Churches...