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...East African empire in a racial holocaust. Last week, in the exclusive "White Highlands," settlers went in fear of unseen Mau Mau snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson's Falls, Dr. Ian Meiklejohn was slashed to death by Mau-Mau knifemen; in retribution, British troops rounded up every Kikuyu in a area surrounding the murder scene, drove off their cattle, sheep and goats and pulled down every native hut in sight...
...Lord's Doorstep. As the bishop's secretary in Kwangtung, Sister Joan Marie was placed under house arrest with Ford when the Reds brought trumped-up charges of espionage against him in December of 1950. Though never tried, he was taken from his home four months later and publicly paraded, beaten and degraded in some of the cities in which he had done mission work since...
Bishop Ford had neither courted martyrdom nor shirked it. On first arriving in China, he uttered this prayer: "Lord, make us the doorstep by which the multitudes may come to worship Thee, and if ... we are ground underfoot and spat upon and worn out, at least we ... shall have become the King's Highway in pathless China." In 20 years Francis Ford increased his flock from 9,000 to 20,000, built schools, hostels and churches. When World War II came, he stuck by his post, aiding Chinese guerrillas, helping downed Allied airmen escape, relieving war refugees in distress...
First for Maryknoll. A doorstep in China, Bishop Ford was a door opener and pace setter for his order, the Maryknoll Society, which now numbers 2,337 fathers and sisters. He was the first student to enroll at Maryknoll when it was founded 40 years ago. Ordained a priest in 1917, he was one of the first four missioners Maryknoll sent to China the following year. He founded the Maryknoll Seminary for Chinese Boys and played a key part in organizing the first overseas convent for Maryknoll sisters. His diocese would have been the first Maryknoll territory to be turned...
...would-be authors. For a few hundred dollars (and up), anybody, if he shops far enough, can have the thrill of seeing his stuff in print. He may not get much for his money -often not more than a stack of cheaply printed, poorly bound books dumped on his doorstep. His disappointment may be keen if the come-on has convinced him that his book is going to sell. But at least he is in print...