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...good Anglicans had something to think about last week: the Church of England's Commission on Evangelism had proposed a fiveyear, $800,000-a-year publicity program "to help [convert] Eng land to the Christian faith." It was hardly news to most of them that England - or any other "Christian" country - stood in need of conversion. But, coming from the staid Church of England, the flat statement was a bombshell...
...From Hollywood: I had a long talk last night with Chris Cunningham of the United Press, who was with Ernie in Eng land and North Africa. He is here advising the United Artists studios on the production of a movie based on Pyle's book, Here Is Your War. He says that the studio is sticking fully to Ernie's stipulation that the picture must be dedicated to the infantry and tell a true story of the G.I.s. But the movie will be full of Ernie. And it will stress his frailties throughout. It will admit his fear...
...feudalism, the Prussian landlords who crushed the revolution could not conceive of an economic society distinct from a political organization. The Prussian attempt to merge economics and politics, to use the power of the state to enhance the competitive power of the German economic machine, naturally provoked fear in Eng land, in France and in the U.S. And each attempt to shelter a group, an industry or a class from competition in the world market has resulted in reprisals. One "planned economy" has begotten another, and country after country has at least partially seceded from the natural world division...
Died. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall. Known to all Eng land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby...
Died. Dame Ethel Smyth, 86, Eng land's top woman composer (Mass in D), writer (As Time Went On), onetime suffragette; in Woking, Surrey. Mannish Dame Ethel was once jugged for throwing a brick through the Home Secretary's window. She also smoked cigars...