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Among the eminent men on the Lawrence faculty are Herbert Spiegelberg of the philosophy department, recently awarded a Guggenheim Grant to study phenomenology in Germany; Warren Beck, the novelist; Craig Thompson, an Erasmus scholar; and William F. Raney in history. In the last three years, eight faculty members have applied for Ford Fellowships for study abroad and all eight have been accepted. Professors credit much of this record to Pusey: not only does he pick superior men, but he encourages the worthy professors to compete for the awards. Many college presidents hesitate to allow their best men the year...
...fact is that almost all of South Africa's airmen resent the Nationalist order that Erasmus' picture must be hung in mess halls and barracks. Erasmus is a lawyer who has had no military experience, spent World War II demanding that his country make peace with Hitler...
Behind Shuttleworth's acquittal lay more than softheadedness on the part of Prime Minister Daniel Malan's hardhearted government. The Nationalists are thoroughly alarmed by the uproar provoked in South Africa's armed forces by Defense Minister Erasmus' highhanded attempt to oust veterans of World War II in favor of Nationalist political toadies (TIME, March 24). The troops responded...
...Beating up Erasmus in Capetown a month...
...last week, the Nationalist government could no longer rely on the discipline of its regular forces, which are the largest and most modern in Africa. South Africa's 30,000-man army, a seasoned combat force under Good Soldier Jan Smuts (whom Erasmus kicked out), has become a military joke, badly equipped and riddled with political intrigue...