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...Amsterdam meeting had its beginnings back in 1910, when missionaries of many non-Roman Catholic churches met in Edinburgh to discuss their common problems and the possibilities of cooperation. Among them was a U.S. Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent. In the midst of the proceedings, Bishop Brent suddenly saw things in a new perspective. "I learned that something was working that was not of man in that conference,'-' he said later. "The spirit of God . . . was preparing a new era in the history of Christianity." He set to work to persuade his fellow churchmen that...
...Duke of Edinburgh, who turned 27 last week, not only got the Freedom of the City of London, but was admitted to membership in the City's Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He was also appointed a personal aide-de-camp to his well-known father...
Princess Elizabeth's pregnancy (TIME, March 15) was now official. The announcement from Buckingham Palace put it this way: "Her Royal Highness, the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, will undertake no public engagements after the end of June...
...Hahn is sure that his schools have found William James's "moral equivalent of war." Says Hahn: "One of the mysterious currents making for war ... is the longing of the young to probe their reserves of ... endurance, daring and resourcefulness." One who probed himself: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, onetime Guardian (head boy) of Gordonstoun. At the Hahn-founded Outward Bound Sea School in Wales, 100 different boys come each month from schools, farms and factories throughout Britain, get to know something about "the sea, each other and themselves." At reviving Salem, 340 demoralized young Germans are learning democracy...
...Edinburgh, delegates to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the established church of Scotland, wound up their annual meeting. They discussed liberalizing their divorce canon (to permit remarriage of repentant adulterers at the minister's discretion), but decided to think about it again next year...