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Whilst appreciating the honor TIME [Aug. 31] bestowed in featuring the teaching of the British Israel World Federation . . . I would like to correct the impression made by the use of the word "cult." As the Oxford Dictionary defines this as a "system of religious worship," the federation pleads "not guilty," for it is an interdenominational organization; it has no church status ... It is an organization ... of all the recognized Christian denominations . . . We believe in the Second Coming and the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth [and] in the continuity throughout history of the whole House of Israel from whom...
...maneuvering, the delegates balked Vishinsky, 44 votes to 16. Red China pitched in from Peking with a demand for undoing the recent special Assembly decision to confine the Korean peace talks to the countries which fought the war-the issue on which Britain had split with the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 24). But the committee of 16 U.N. nations which fought the war bluntly answered back that the old decision still stood...
...aftermath of General Motors' $70 million Livonia fire (TIME, Aug. 24), insurance companies are rewriting their recommendations for industrial plants. They will demand greater use of sprinklers, curtain boards and other fire-retarding devices...
Hitler's Secret Conversations, by Adolf Hitler (introduced by British Historian H. R. Trevor-Roper). The Führer's unguarded, all-night talk fests, taken down in shorthand by party associates, give an excellent insight into a weird and fascinating mind (TIME, Aug...
...Unconquered, by Ben Ames Williams. A posthumously published sequel to House Divided, full of carefully researched history, violence in Reconstruction days and tears over spilled mint juleps (TIME, Aug...