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...financing and administering of a gigantic rearmament program. Nothing in their past as university dons or trade unionists, as pacifists or Marxists, equips them for this task. It is one of Britain's misfortunes that the Socialists, representing as they do so large a percentage of the governed, should lack enough experienced leaders who are fit to govern. There are able men among them, but as a party they are ignorant of finance, naive about foreign affairs and antagonistic to the military...
...escape clause somewhere in his leader. Among the half dozen or so Conservative M.P.s I lunched with at one time or another, I never heard one talk about what the Tories would accomplish, or indeed sound as if he really believed his party was much fitter to govern than the Socialists. It is principally Winston Churchill, still bitter at his 1945 defeat, who thirsts for office. And he is getting older, growing hard of hearing and remote. A Conservative M.P. told me that he doubts that Churchill regularly speaks to more than 20 members of the House...
Superintendent Goslin also had a chance to address the committee. Said he: "I have never seen a community in America where the school system was better than its people wanted it to be. What the people want not only should govern, it does in fact govern . . . Here in Pasadena we are going through one of those typically American procedures to find out what we believe in and what we want...
...significant writings, in which he appeared as a champion of humanity and freedom of thought." Russell's most important work, in mathematics and logic, was finished 40 years ago. Since then he has written, sometimes wisely but too much, on morals, politics, China, marriage, atoms, bolshevism and world government. In 1940 a New York court revoked his professorship at New York's City College because he advocated trial marriage for students. When a reporter asked him last week if he was still angry about the 1940 incident, Russell said: "I am not mad at anybody-except the Catholic...
Bishops will have a place in the new plan, said Conference Chairman Holt, presbyteries will have certain constitutional responsibilities, and congregations will govern themselves. The plan will be formally presented to representatives of the currently participating Protestant groups* at a two-day convocation in Cincinnati in January. Then the plan is expected to go to commissions of each denomination for study and action...