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V. K. Wellington Koo joined China's diplomatic service with the establishment of the Republic in 1912, and for nearly 45 years spoke brilliantly and urbanely for his awakening country at every major international conference, at almost every major capital. A graduate of Columbia University, he was Minister to...
Christians have done their best and worst to convert the Jews, with a range of persuasions running from sweet reasonableness to slow torture. The Jews, on the other hand, seem to have no missionary zeal. It was not always thus; Jesus described the Pharisees as crossing "sea and land to...
Thrusting & Drawing. Despite the "chosen people" concept, he points out, Judaism has never had the idea that outside it there is no salvation-the idea that has enabled so many Christians to look upon missions as a kind of rescue work. Judaism recognizes all righteous men as sharing in the...
In the crowded sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on staid, tree-lined Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. last week, a pro-segregation clergyman rose and heralded the defeat of his faction in singular language. Said the Rev. Alton J. Shirey: "You flattened us like a steam roller yesterday. Let...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has maintained all along that the rearmament vote need not prevent-in fact might even encourage-Russian attempts to negotiate with the West. Strength, he argued, is what the Russians respect. Last week everything pointed to Adenauer's essential rightness. At 79, and still carrying a...