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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
...season of Protestant get-togethers was in full swing last week. Everywhere there was talk about church mergers. Protestants showed an increasing awareness of how much they have in common; they also displayed a stubborn, but understandable, concern over what they held precious in their own creeds...
...Seattle, representatives of the northern Presbyterian church (called the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) met for their 160th General Assembly. Church union was the principal subject-not with the Episcopalians (that is at present virtually a dead letter), but with the Presbyterians south of the Mason & Dixon line who broke away from the northern body during the Civil War. Assemblies of both churches will not vote on union until next year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected...
...Atlanta, the Southern Presbyterians debated a proposal to withdraw from the Federal Council of Churches. This resolution (supported to a considerable extent by textile industrialists who are not happy about the Federal Council's liberal labor policies) was defeated in a poll of Southern presbyteries during the year by a vote of 62 to 23. New Moderator of the Southern Presbyterians is the Rev. Charles Darby Fulton, 55, onetime missionary to Japan and secretary of his church's Committee of Foreign Missions since...
...Milwaukee, the 5,000 delegates of the Northern Baptist Convention discussed proposals (but took no action) for church reunion-with the Southern Baptists and with the 1,693,807-member Disciples of Christ. Dr. Culbert G. Rutenber of Philadelphia's Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary warned the delegates that U.S. churches are "fearful, humiliated and frustrated...