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...would be in poor taste to add to the amply violent attack that has been directed against the John Birch Society, But a word does remain to be said in criticism of the attackers...
...Congressman Henry Reuss, Wisconsin Democrat, called for a congressional investigation of Welch and his society. A spokesman for Attorney General Robert Kennedy said that the society's activities were "a matter of concern to the Justice Department." Across the land, newspapers began to print articles inquiring into Birch Society techniques in their own home towns...
...missionaries, John Morrison Birch was born in Landour, India, May 28, 1918. He was raised in Macon, Ga., graduated from Mercer University (where he belonged to a group that raised unproven heresy charges against some of the professors), became a fundamentalist Baptist missionary in China. During World War II he joined a U.S. Army intelligence unit in China, served with the rank of captain. Ten days after the Japanese surrender in 1945, he was killed by a band of Chinese Communist guerrillas. Birch Society members regard him as the first victim of the cold war. Birch's parents...
...just that: a qualified member. Though timber products-Finland's biggest export-will be free to compete on an equal footing, Finland will not reduce tariffs as swiftly as the other EFTA countries on a range of Finnish specialties: varnishes, polishes, small electric motors, sauna whisks and birch twigs. To satisfy Russia, Finland will keep import quotas on those goods that Russia chiefly supplies, e.g., fuels and fertilizer. But as one former Finnish ambassador to Washington explains: "You cannot understand what EFTA means to us-it is our first formal link to the West since the war. We have...
...stately polonaise, now consisted of a hurried procession of guests who appeared to be on their way to a cookout. The television camera could not encompass the crowd effects that are so important to Boris; and the Idiot at opera's end had only a thicket of birch .trees, rather than a forest, in which to sing his prophetic curtain song...