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Night Attack. Up in the citadel the distant sound of mortar fire awakes the garrison commander. He snaps on a flashlight, hurriedly cranks the field telephone. But the duty officer can only guess from the direction of the noise that the attack is at Tanmai, a small fort west of Moncay manned by about 40 Vietnamese soldiers. Tanmai has no radio or telephone...
...Editor Garrison devotes one of his articles to examining the origins of Spain's state Catholicism. As he entered the country, the state tourist department handed him a pamphlet "containing a defense and glorification of the Spanish Inquisition" and Garrison quotes it at length to show that the compulsory conversion enforced by the Inquisition was undertaken as much for political as "religious" reasons...
...Reformation failed in Spain, says Garrison, not because "the Spanish mind is naturally, congenitally and incurably Catholic," but simply because the church-state's repression of non-Catholicism was so ruthless. How long would such a leader as Luther, he asks, "have lasted in the fires of an auto-da-fé at Seville? Or, even if he had been made of asbestos, what role would he ... have played in Ferdinand's program of national unification by compulsory religious solidarity...
Backfire. Spanish Protestantism today, "like the church in the catacombs," says Garrison, "has turned its legal disabilities to good account and has reaped spiritual benefits from its material weakness...
Every Protestant pastor to whom Garrison talked told him of gains; e.g., one of Madrid's larger congregations reported its membership had tripled since the end of the civil war nearly twelve years ago. Church services everywhere seemed to be attended almost to capacity. One of the chief reasons for this growth, thinks Garrison, is that the government prohibition of church publicity makes laymen more zealous in bringing others into the church. "There isn't a preacher in America who wouldn't rather have his laymen . . . constantly cover the neighborhood with quiet personal invitations to church than...