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...cannot rightly condemn all "how-to-do-it" courses. Exercises in creative writing, for example, seem much more relevant to serious academic pursuits than do exercises in photography. The problem is that instruction in the techniques of art is essentially inconsistent with the aims of education at the College, and the more of it one admits to the curriculum, the greater the likelihood that general education will gradually be replaced by training toward professionalism in the arts...
Ninty per cent of the supporting funds comes from other African countries, with the rest coming mostly from Eastern Europe and Communist China. Mondlane complained strongly that much of the Western world "can't even be made to condemn Portugal in any international conferences...
...Religion tells of a German play that is stirring up controversy in four European cities, arguing that the late Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of Jews. It seemed to us not enough merely to note the accusation and the acrimony, and we set out to look into how and why the Pope behaved...
Everywhere, Der Stellvertreter has caused a storm of comment and quarrel. For in it, Hochhuth argues that Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of European Jews because he saw Hitler as a necessary barrier between Soviet Communism and the Christian West, and hoped to negotiate a cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix...
...Pius ignored Allied pressure to speak out against Nazi genocide. In the autumn of 1942, Myron C. Taylor, Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, gave the Holy See evidence of the anti-Jewish campaign, and the U.S. Minister to Switzerland warned the Vatican that failure to condemn these atrocities "is undermining faith both in the church and in the Holy Father himself." Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker, who claimed that he tried to protect the Pope from Hitler's wrath while serving as German envoy to the Holy See, cabled his Foreign Ministry superiors: "The Pope...