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...Cominform, founded last year in Poland, is the Communist instrument to bind the satellites to Russia. Ana, through her unswerving loyalty to Stalin, has risen in the Cominform. Now, Andrei Zhdanov, once its guiding spirit, is dead. Tito, once its most powerful member, is in disgrace. (The seat of the Cominform, has been formally transferred from Belgrade to Bucharest.) Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, co-chairman with Zhdanov of the first Cominform meeting, has just been demoted after a row with Moscow (see below). Albania has been cut off by Tito's defection. Communist power in Czechoslovakia...
With this firm keynote, 329 bishops and archbishops of the Anglican Communion reported last week on the results of the eighth Lambeth Conference.* On Oct. 10 their encyclical letter will be read to congregations around the globe in a hundred languages. Lambeth's proceedings do not bind the communion's 20,000,000 members. But as the London Times observed: "This solid body of coherent theological doctrine . . . must be regarded ... as a formidable fact in world thought and opinion...
Therefore, writes Father White, material that the psychiatrist considers valuable may be rejected by the priest as self-infatuated garbage. "What a penitent is expected to confess is very clearly denned and restricted to the sins committed since his baptism or his previous confession. No such limitation can bind the analyst . . . The patient's 'good deeds' will interest . . . [the analyst] no less than his 'bad' ones . . . while dreams, free associations, spontaneous reactions and other manifestations of the unconscious will interest him still more...
...finer things which unite us ... The unity we seek is more than material. Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world, physically, apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces, to bind up its wounds, to make a good society, a community of men of good will that fits our dreams...
...last week, the government had given up that hope, was ready to talk turkey. It had watched the formation of "Western Union" (see INTERNATIONAL). From that, it seemed only a logical step to bind those five European countries with the U.S. and Canada in a North Atlantic Union...