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...five months, military police and civilians had hunted in vain for un flaco con ojos de loco (a thin man with crazy eyes). Just before the murder of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (TIME, April 19), the thin man had been seen talking with assassin Juan Roa Sierra. If the thin man could be found (Assassin Roa was battered to death), it might be possible to discover who was behind Gaitán's killing...
...that point, Committee Investigator Robert Stripling turned to Pennsylvania's Representative John McDowe'l. The con= versation went somewhat as follows...
Ladislav Rieger, a member of the Communist "action committee" which had taken over the Czech universities, con tinued the battle for the "new humanism." When he finished, Germany's Walter Brugger remarked: "I see no difference between the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Naziism." A hurt, weary look appeared on Rieger's face. "Always the same confusion," he sighed...
...residence. They sat on hard wooden chairs (former conferences used comfort able armchairs and each bishop took home his chair as a memento). "There has nev er," commented the Manchester Guardian, "been a Lambeth Conference so free from princely affectation." "A Fearless Witness." "Marxian Communism ," the conferees declared, "is con trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies the existence of God, Revelation and a future life; it treats the individual man as a means and not an end ; it encour ages class warfare . . ." But the headway made by Communism is in itself a judg ment on church...
...Nuns" [TIME, July 12] ... may I thank you and congratulate you on having stated our case with truth and understanding. As one of the nuns who taught in western North Dakota during the drought years of 1936-38, I am in a position to appreciate the current pro & con comments of the press...