Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the bigger problem, economic unification of Europe, came before the U.N. Russia, interested in delaying peace rather than in promoting it, promptly balked. The issue was raised by U.N.'s Economic & Social Council in an awesome, 450-page report on Europe's economy. Recommended: integration of...
The Protestant (undenominational) Christian Century was fed up. It had had great hopes of possible unity between the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. It had bridled when Episcopalians showed signs of reneging on their nine-year-old invitation to Presbyterians to consider union with them. This week...
"[Yet] the convention, we believe, really defeated the opponents of eventual union without being fully conscious that it was doing so. The commission's plan has by no means been laid on the shelf. It will be studied despite the failure of the convention to recommend that it be...
Once we had assembled, the American preparatory commission, a joint project of nine student organizations which had brought together the delegates, was formally dissolved. We were left to work out our own programs.
But we gave emphasis in our New York sessions to the preposed International Union of Students that we wished to establish. Detailed proposals were worked out for an international clearing house for student exchange, a commission to work on the rehabilitation of devastated universities, an international student newspaper and journal...