Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Merton's two previous books (Seven Storey and Seeds of Contemplation) have reached bestseller lists. Seven Storey, with its drama of Merton's inner conflict, conversion and renunciation, has sold more than 270,000 copies and is still selling. It is not likely that Waters of Siloe will hit any such figure, but Merton has put together a brief, lively history of an order that U.S. readers seem curious to hear about...
...same year saw the dispatch of Henry Wallace, of all citizens, to Chiang to urge accord with the Communists. There was sardonic humor in the State Department record of his conversations: "Mr. Wallace again stressed the point that there should be no situation in China which might lead to conflict with the U.S.S.R. ... Mr. Wallace referred to the patriotic attitude of the Communists in the United States and said that he could not understand the attitude of the Chinese Communists...
...Rodriguez was accused of operating a brinco (literally, a jump), one of a series of fashionable private houses where, in rotation, gambling is carried on almost every night. Brincos are the most elegant manifestations of a long-standing conflict between Mexicans' desire to bet on whatever they please and the government's efforts to funnel gambling money into taxable channels...
...pressing for full reparations. The Israeli government has promised special consideration when its Parliament considers a bill for the settlement of all war damages. Said Premier David Ben-Gurion: Israel will pay for church damage "where we are found to be responsible. I couldn't imagine any possible conflict between us and the Catholic Church...
...Quakers feel that by making a reality of good will among men, they can overcome even the most brutally "realistic" aspects of Communist doctrine. They concede that "a final violent conflict between the Soviet and the capitalist worlds is a basic article of faith of Russian Communism." Even so, the Quakers fondly hope that "the flexible nature of Russian Communism and the existence of certain precedents make even a fundamental change in attitude toward the non-Communist world not entirely beyond the range of possibility...