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...soul. Hearing of the prospective revolution, he is unwilling to lend his support until he can be assured that the blow will come after his Master has left the city for the summer. But when at the last minute the Captain decides to stay, George is compelled to betray the plot. The militia are called, and Denmark Vesey, forsaken by all his "disciples," is left to await his own doom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charleston, 1822 | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...Gisella Perl is a pleasant, well-dressed Rumanian doctor who does not look her 43 years.* Nor does her face betray her fearful experiences. Before the Allies liberated her from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, her parents, husband and son had been killed by the Germans. And-according to some theologians-Dr. Perl has killed about 3,000 people herself. They were of undetermined sex: unborn children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not So Simple | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...resigned at being forced to cohabitate where they alone should rightfully be allowed to live. But in doing this the church does not renounce her thesis . . . but merely adapts herself . . . Hence arises the great scandal among Protestants . . . We ask Protestants to understand that the Catholic church would betray her trust if she were to proclaim . . . that error can have the same rights as truth . . . The church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church Cannot Blush | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...crisp, strong voice did not betray her 61 years as she declared: "We"must have all communications flowing freely. We must keep Berlin unified, within a united Germany." This was little less than Berlin's German Mayor calling on the Russians to stop strangling the capital. The two Russian officers showed their unconcern-one by strolling out, the other by reading a newspaper. The assembly (all but the score of S.E.D. Communists) applauded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Bear of Berlin | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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