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...Episcopal Church of St. Clement, two halves of the congregation face each other while during the sermon the preacher faces the middle space between the two groups, so that they may gaze at each other, apparently ignoring the preacher. This is the opposite of functionalism...
Britain had election fever. All week, there was mounting speculation about when & if Prime Minister Clement Attlee would announce the date of Britain's impending general election. On Sunday, Attlee motored from his country residence at Chequers to confer with King George at Sandringham Castle. To clear the way for the election, the King would have to dissolve the present Parliament, issue writs calling a new one into session. Barring a last-minute switch, the British general election will be held Thursday...
...cruelty. But it is Caesar who really dominates the stage: a Caesar who is neither the image on a Roman coin nor the stern voice of the Roman Capitol, but a great and contradictory man molded into a peculiarly Shavian hero. Shaw's Caesar is much more the clement conqueror than the model for dictators, a man above meanness and resentment, with a lonely rather than a loving heart. On him first Rome and then middle age have set their heavy seal. His is a sad skepticism, not quite Pilate's "What is truth?" nor the Preacher...
...controlled Spanish press, which had been treating touring Congressmen as if each was a cigar-chomping oracle, bottled the story up tight for 24 hours. Then Madrid's Arriba burst forth with an angry editorial which accused Pfeifer and his two companions-Democratic Congressmen Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin and Thomas S. Gordon of Illinois-of "malice and shortsightedness." What was Spain going to do about the U.S.? Cried Arriba: "The answer is simple. Nothing. We are going to do nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American...
...made no public charges when it removed Revers. Instead, it placed him "at the disposal of the Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To succeed Revers as chief of staff, Bidault picked General Clement Blanc, a logistics expert who had directed the re-equipment of Free French forces in Africa with U.S. materials, and had served as General de Lattre de Tassigny's No. 2 man at Western Union headquarters. The French press has called General Blanc the "worst-tempered...