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...After long study he settled on a scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities; 2) transform communal militias into truly popular forces; 3) harass the Communists whenever they attempt to infiltrate one of the new resettlement villages. Busy fighting, with no money to spare, the French shook their heads. Said a French civil servant: "The French would never dare to undertake such a tricky enterprise...
...atmospheric prose"), the New York Times's Dick Johnson. The Trib's Marguerite Higgins often filed good stories, says Voorhees, but "she and the other [women] distinctly were out of place in a battle zone conditioned to the convenience ... of the male," e.g., open-air latrines and communal sleeping...
Badly, says Sebastian de Grazia, a layman, in Errors of Psychotherapy (Doubleday; $3). His complaint: the psychotherapists are ignoring moral values and man's "communal nature." Badly, says Psychologist Robert Lindner in Prescription for Rebellion, out this week (Rinehart; $3.50). His complaint: the psychotherapists are still hogtied by old ideas about moral values and the need for men to be like each other to live together...
Carmelite Father Philip decided that the Benedictines, oldest monastic order in the Catholic Church, with their traditions of communal work as well as preaching & teaching, were best fitted for bringing a new understanding of Christianity to India. Five years ago he transferred to the order and started work on the Salem monastery. Then he went to Europe for two years of Benedictine training. This spring, with two Belgian colleagues as advisers, he was able to open the monastery as a full-fledged Benedictine foundation...
...Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...