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Specialties. While some rivals tried to link the new paper to the discredited tradition, Le Temps set its sights high in the better postwar tradition of French journalism. Under Philippe Boegner, 46, a veteran of France's top picture magazine, Paris-Match (circ. 1,500,000), as well as newspapering, Le Temps pledged its independence of any party or clique. Domestically, Le Temps takes a politically conservative line; abroad, it is friendly to the U.S. and Western unity. One of Boegner's innovations is an editorial page separate from news columns...
With this solemn dialogue between France's Marc Boegner and the crowd at Soldier Field, the World Council of Churches last week dramatized the unity of Christians in a mammoth "Festival of Faith...
...into the church, the chapel and two halls of the First Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill. this week for a service the like of which the world has never seen before. In the processional marched 700 priests and patriarchs, bishops and archbishops, ministers and laymen. The Rev. Dr. Marc Boegner of France read the First Lesson (Isaiah 53) in French. Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, read the Second Lesson (Philippians 2:1-11) in Greek. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway led the recitation of the Apostles' Creed in German. The Rt. Rev. G.K.A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester...
...Holy Task. Dr. Marc Boegner, leading French Protestant and one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches, pledged the support of the World Council's 156 component bodies. Said Isaiah Schwartz, Chief Rabbi of France: "At the present time, when so many clouds are accumulating on the horizon, there is no task more holy and more necessary than that presented...
Declaring that "the future of the Christian cause depends on the mobilization of laymen," the committee decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...