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...campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership, not alone of a rich, prosperous, contented country as in the past, but of a world in ferment...
...Stirring Peoples. The leaders of Istiglal, the independence movement, are on the whole moderate men who prefer pressure to violence. Yet the ferment of Moslem nationalism is reaching west toward Morocco. Last autumn there were election riots. Last week the Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, who was once mistakenly thought to be a safe man for France, dispatched a letter to President Vincent Auriol demanding more local rule...
...Yale Law School, smaller, friendlier, and less-well-known, has been a place of ferment and experimentation in legal theory and teaching since Robert Hutching was dean in the late twenties. Thurman Arnold and William O. Douglas sparked the faculty in the late thirties...
...Canaigre (Rumex hymenosepalus), also known as wild rhubarb, long recognized as a source of fine tannic acids. High on the critical materials list during World War II, most tannin is still imported. Canaigre also gives starches and sugars which ferment to alcohol, might provide an antibiotic effective against some forms of tuberculosis...
...time it was no routine chapel assignment. The News reporter wrote: "An electrically tense audience packed itself into Battell Chapel last night to hear Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr." The reporter did not exaggerate. For three successive nights Niebuhr, a lightning-fast speaker, held Yale undergraduates spellbound, and left behind a ferment of discussion...