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Disarmament. Dulles restated the major package proposals of the U.S. and its allies in the six-month-long disarmament talks in London. These were 1) rule out surprise attacks by setting up air and ground inspection, 2) stop production of fissionable materials for weapons and gradually convert nuclear stockpiles to atoms for peace, 3) suspend nuclear tests for two years, 4) no war experiments to be conducted in space, 5) begin the reduction of conventional arms. Under such a disarmament system, said Dulles, "bad faith would be so vulnerable to detection that it would not become a profitable tactic even...
Britain's outstanding Roman Catholic scholar, most versatile writer, and gentlest man died this week. Msgr. Ronald Knox, 69, No. 1 convert to Catholicism since the Oxford movement, left both the monumental and the diverting behind him: a masterful translation of the Bible, a classic Limerick, a definitive history of Christianity's hot-blooded sectarianism and six popular detective novels. But it was perhaps as a man that he exerted his deepest influence on those around...
Died. Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 69, English Roman Catholic convert and scholar; of cancer; in Somerset, England (see RELIGION...
CANADA'S DOLLAR is up to all-time high of $1.058 in U.S. currency, largely because of heavy investments by foreign companies, which must convert their currencies into Canadian dollars...
...play is an exciting tale and it has plenty of wit and humor. But it is at heart a serious play about religious faith. Religion has been an important concern to Greene since he embraced the Roman Catholic faith. (He says it is wrong to call him a "convert"; he insists that he only "accepted" Catholicism, because it was for him an intellectual act, not an emotional...