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...proposed new canon on marriage and divorce is a sign of the times. If the General Convention were to adopt a canon such as this, which rejects the plain teaching of our Lord Himself* the Protestant Episcopal Church would be confronted with the gravest crisis in history...
...rule, Britain's destinies are guided by Britain's politicians. Britannia waived that rule last week. 'In the face of the nation's gravest economic crisis it became increasingly evident as the days went on that leading international financiers had taken hold and were pulling the wires that made the wheels go round...
...Either alternative will be unpleasant. Indeed it is obvious that the limits of direct taxation have been reached and the gap is not going to be filled merely by reiterating our fiscal convictions. I prefer to see the gap bridged by effective economies, but I confess the gravest doubts whether the MacDonald Government is capable of effecting economies on the scale needed...
...That the rewards of labor be given according to competence and capacity is not new in the Soviet State, and your correspondent has repeatedly emphasized the fact that Stalinism aims at using capitalist weapons to achieve collective or Socialist results. It would be the gravest error if the midway period of the Five-Year Plan . . . should be identified in the foreign mind with anything like a retreat or recantation on the part of the Bolshevist leader...
...Finnish janitor was represented by a Negro defense attorney who at once pleaded the prisoner "guilty," appealed for mercy to the so-called Court. Anyone hearing this appeal might have supposed that the prisoner was in gravest peril. "Don't expel him from the party!" begged Negro Counsel Richard B. Moore (onetime Communist candidate for State's Attorney General). "Expulsion from the party is worse than death at the hands of the bourgeoisie! I would rather have my head severed by lynchers than be expelled from the Communist International...