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...Renaissance "Humanist" was a foe of medieval scholastic philosophy, an admirer of the Greek and Latin classics. Now Humanist means a believer in an ethical nonreligion, in which the Supreme Being is man, and prayer is "a telephone conversation with no one at the other end." To Humanists, God is a bundling up of all life's mysteries in one package, just as a man with bills at many stores might consolidate his debts with a bank loan so as to owe only the bank. Humanists reject both consolidations as equally delusive...
...quarters in the Hotel Aletti through the back door.) Two government ministers, however, left Algiers not in flight but ostensibly to fight. Tough, able Belkacem Krim, who conducted the F.L.N.'s peace negotiations with the French, and shrewd, ambitious Mohammed Boudiaf, a onetime jailmate and implacable foe of Ben Bella's, set up headquarters in the rugged, all but impenetrable Kabylia area and vowed to resist Ben Bella's takeover "to the last drop of blood...
...makes that body amenable. With that in mind, the Presi dent permitted his Senate leaders to attach a modified form of the King-Anderson medicare bill as an amendment to an unre lated welfare bill. This had the advantage of bypassing the Senate Finance Commit tee, headed by Medicare Foe Harry Byrd...
While the F.L.N. leaders wrangled like children, there was evidence of a growing impatience among the long-suffering 10 million Algerians. The historical-minded remembered that their country had always fallen prey to conquerors because of the inability of its chiefs to unite against a common foe. The F.L.N. newspaper, El Moudjahid, had a warning to all the wranglers: "If an agreement is not reached very quickly, it will inevitably become necessary to consider the replacement of the leadership...
Communists loudly claim to be the friend of the Negro, foe to racial discrimination. But last week a Negro woman who is a former U.S. party member testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist practices as opposed to polemics. Mrs. Julia Clarice Brown said that in 1947, when she joined the party in Cleveland, she found that she could not attend meetings of the cell in her Cleveland neighborhood. Said Mrs. Brown: "It was a Jim Crow club." Mrs. Brown had to make a three-mile trip to reach a Communist cell that was willing to mingle...