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Doctrinal Opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced no-din-zim), a young-looking 53, was the son of a grand chamberlain of the Annamite court. Earnest, dedicated, a devout Roman Catholic, Diem graduated top of his class in Viet Nam's School of Administration, worked his way through the French-run Vietnamese civil service, and was appointed Interior Minister at 32, in one of France's early "Vietnamese nationalist governments." But Diem resigned two months later, decrying French hypocrisy and bumble, vowing to lead an ascetic life in doctrinal opposition to the colonial power...
...texts and to prepare them for propagation throughout a morally shaken Asia. The man behind the council is Burma's pleasant, scholarly Prime Minister U Nu, who has been doing his best to spark a religious resurgence in his country since it got its independence in 1948. A devout Buddhist, who rises to pray at 4 a.m. each day, U Nu was meditating one day several years ago in the sacred cave where the first Buddhist council was held, when he had a vision of a great gathering of monks chanting the scriptures in a similar cave...
...India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who holds that "the spectacle of what is called religion . . . has filled me with horror," exposed himself to the spectacle again last week and proceeded to horrify the devout. At the dedication of a new textile-industries research building in the city of Ahmadabad, Nehru grew stone-faced when a Brahman priest placed a tilaka mark on his forehead. The priest chanted some monotonous slokas, and Nehru began to fidget in annoyance. The Brahman then grasped the Prime Minister's shoulders and asked him to touch the wall of the building...
Avoiding the Flesh pots. The question of which church to serve posed no problem. His lawyer father was a casual Episcopalian,- his mother a devout Presbyterian. Pit unhesitatingly chose the Presbyterian for his ministry. "I wasn't keen about the liturgical emphasis in the Episcopal Church," he says. "I also thought it contained more charming nominal Christians than any other. I missed its lack of moral drive. My religious motivation is primarily moral, and always will be. I didn't have to read Reinhold Niebuhr to know about original sin. The forces of evil are always gaining ground...
Good Quaker Douglas was on his feet in protest:. "Mr. President, being a devout member of a religious faith, I must say that I have not shot craps, as the Senator from Colorado intimates...