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...American press, including TIME, has headlined contradictory attitudes toward the East-West confrontation, suggesting that the assembly's discussions reproduced the shocking scenes of United Nations debates. It would be difficult to conjure up a picture more completely at variance with the facts. At Amsterdam, it was at every point a discussion "within the family," carried on by Christians and friends who recognized and treated one another always as such. Even the divergence in definition of "church" to which TIME calls attention was merely a recording of an old and familiar difference, far less significant than the wholly unforeseen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Russians are having real trouble with their satellites, who are pressing for a resumption of East-West trade. The Russians need time and a relaxation of tension to ease the satellite situation. Some Russians are calculating that Western Union will break down, that the U.S. may run into domestic economic trouble, and even that Henry Wallace may score an unexpected success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Gentlemen, I Have a Plan | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Hyenas & Jackals. Like the International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, Aug. 30), the intellectuals divided on the East-West issue. Alexander Fadeev, head sheep dog of the Russian writing pack, called Western culture "disgusting filth" and denounced T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passes and André Malraux. "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens," said Fadeev, "they would write such things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Delights of Intellectuality | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam called it "continuous and creative cooperation of 145 churches at a world level." But what the world mostly heard were sounds of argument. At the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the chief debate seemed remarkably like the East-West bickering in U.N. The debaters: U.S. Layman John Foster Dulles and Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Argument at Amsterdam | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...wall of secrecy around the East-West talks in the Kremlin sprang a few small leaks last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: 60 to 40 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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