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...What thoughts pass through the minds of Samburu, Turkana, Wakamba or Masai tribesmen as they watch the white man harried by the hitherto despised and pacific Kikuyu? What thoughts down in Central Africa, where the British plan a political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya, the Land of the Shining Mountain, has become a smoldering ember in Africa. And the surrounding brush vast, white-run, black-populated, miles...
...Belgian Congo, 75 years after the first two (Baptist) missionaries landed here, 1,700 missionaries of 30 Protestant denominations are directing 12,000 schools with 400,000 pupils and nearly 200 hospitals and dispensaries. They are all united in one body-the Congo Protestant Council. "They baptize into one church, the Church of Christ in the Congo, one of the finest examples of Christian cooperation on earth. And they have 600,000 church members, plus 300,000 inquirers, out of a population of some 12 million...
...have to deal, says Dr. Van Dusen, are: 1) "the whirlwind of social, economic and political dislocations which are sweeping from the west coast eastward and southward"; 2) the multiplying activities of governments in fields previously dominated by the missions; 3) the expansion of Roman Catholicism, "especially in French, Belgian, Portuguese and Spanish territories...
...itinerary: Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Siam, India (where he spent two weeks at the Lucknow meetings of he World Council of Churches), Egypt, then down the east coast of Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Rhodesia) to Johannesburg and up the west coast (the Belgian and French Congos, the Cameroons, Nigeria, the Gold Coast...
...will not try to conceal the emotion which assails me at this moment," said Paul-Henri Spaak, the plump Belgian Socialist who looks like Winston Churchill. "Not ten years ago, the countries represented here . . . had but one thought: to destroy each other as completely as possible . . . We recovered, we pulled ourselves together; and while forgetting nothing-for to do so would be profane-we resolved to set forth on the great adventure . . . Therefore, this draft treaty is not only a moving message of reconciliation; it is an act of confidence in the future...