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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Smuts, the wise, venerable, oak-solid Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: These Things Happen | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned up his face with a stupid, terrified look . . . and then without a word turned his nose to the ground." Other men, mad with terror, tried to hide in a fold in the ground: over them stood Union General Gibbon, saying "in a tone of kindly expostulation: 'My men . . . All these matters are in the hands of God, and nothing that you can do will make you safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Saw It Happen | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Take the Lead. He called for "the churches . . . [to] become the Church" -here & now, with no more procrastinating "exploration of the possibilities of union." Since the Roman Catholic Church would consider reunion only on its own terms-a repentant Protestantism asking to be taken back into the fold-"first steps toward union must be taken by the Protestant communions . . . Let each communion in its own way discuss the fundamental question: Is union so desirable that we are resolved to win it? If the answer is affirmative, then bodies can appoint . . . representatives . . . qualified, above all, by a life of Christian spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop's Challenge | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...England Regional Chairman, Arnold Rivkin, is also co-founder of the Law School group for Douglas, while State AVC Chairman Andrew Rice 2G is a member of the National Executive Committee for Eisenhower. Manny Margolis (Wallace) and Hale Knight (Stassen) are two others active within the AVC fold...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Political Network Controlled by Few | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

Although the Liberal Union has a few Wallaceites within the fold, most College opinion to its Left is channeled either through the Committee for Wallace...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: College Politicians Run Amok in Election Year | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

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