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...Madras conference-whose findings the Swarthmore meeting met to ponder-reported that at no time during the past century had the Christian Church faced such opposition as it does today. Of 735.000,000 people in Europe and America, nearly one-third disclaim connection with Christian churches. Many more millions are being evangelized by the anti-Christian religions of Communism and Fascism. In the whole world, the spread of Christianity in the last decade has lagged behind the increase in heathen and pagan populations: Christians number only 737,000,000 of the world's 2,200,000,000 people...
According to the Vassar Miscellany News, the Club is a "vicious attempt of a thwarted Yale man to discredit the name of Princeton before the world. We raise our voice to publicly disclaim sympathy with the fictitious Lonely Hearts Club...
...COULD BE OBTAINED FROM ANY ONE OR ANY TEN HISTORIES. I WILL BE DODGING SNIPERS THE REST OF MY LIFE UNLESS YOU EXPLAIN THAT THIS REMARK WHEN CARELESSLY EMITTED IN A PERSONAL LETTER TWO YEARS AGO APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGNS OF 1776 AND 1777. ALSO OBLIGED TO DISCLAIM DEVELOPING GREAT IDEA OF BEING AMERICA'S BEST HISTORICAL NOVELIST. NEVER HAD IT AND NEVER WILL BECAUSE EVERY TIME I'VE FINISHED A BOOK I'VE RAISED MY RIGHT HAND AND SWORN I'D NEVER DO IT AGAIN. IT'S WEAKNESS COUPLED WITH GRIM NECESSITY...
...Mediterranean Powers and won a good press in England before anyone really knew what was in it, the text was made public. On its face Britain and Italy agree that ships of both countries have "freedom of entry to, exit from and transit through the Mediterranean" and they "disclaim any desire to modify, or, so far as they are concerned, to see modified the status quo as regards national sovereignty in the Mediterranean area...
...matter of ecclesiastical etiquette, Father Coughlin had presumably asked and received Archbishop McNicholas' permission to speak within the limits of his archdiocese. Any further responsibility, the organizer of the Legion of Decency was prompt to disclaim. Cracked he: "As the public and responsible teacher of morality in this community I cannot let pass statements attributed to Father Coughlin in the daily press. When Father Coughlin says, within the limits of this diocese, that he advocates the use of bullets . . . I must on moral grounds protest and condemn such a statement. . . . I must condemn the statement which seems clearly...