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Church and state are separate powers in the Mennonite credo, but the brethren prefer to give the state as wide a berth as possible. Their tightly knit, theocratic little communities assiduously care for their own-and just as assiduously administer their own brand of law. Last week Mennonite law clashed resoundingly with the harsher realities of the law of the land...
...miles distant. Communist journals avoided lavish praise of Mao, emphasized instead his record as a "collective leader." No actual down grading of Mao was involved, however, nor did this represent any contraction of his real power. The Chinese leaders were merely deferring to the pattern suggested by their Soviet brethren, a pattern explained in person to the Chinese Reds by the most distinguished visitor to their conclave, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Mikoyan explained how the Soviet Party had made itself "more united and strong" by overcoming the "cult of the individual." In his 6,700-word address, he heaped...
...desire ... The annual income of the Suez Canal is $100 million. Why not take it ourselves? In the name of the nation, the President of the Republic resolves that the World Maritime Company of the Suez Canal will be nationalized ... At this very moment some of your Egyptian brethren are taking over the Canal Company...
...organization performed a commendable deed. [But] some scandal was surely present in the fostering of the erroneous belief that all religions are good and should be aided. I would say unhesitatingly that the Catholic organization should not have made the offer. However much we may esteem our non-Catholic brethren personally, and admire their sincerity and fervor in the practice of their religion, we must remember that their religion is false and that its practice is opposed to the commandment of Jesus Christ that all men profess the one religion which He established...
...Brethren. Every where Nasser went, crowds swarmed upon his car, struggled past policemen's clubs to embrace and kiss him; once he almost disappeared under clutching arms. Before a huge crowd in Cairo's Republic Square, Nasser stretched arms skyward in the glare of powerful spotlights as the cheers beat up at him from the throng, and declaimed: "Victory has come from God. Egypt today is no longer for the occupiers, the usurpers, or the oppressors. Today, oh brethren, Egypt exists for its children...