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...Lake Success last week, Israel's dapper little Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett* quoted the prophet Isaiah: "Lo yissa goy el goy herev welo yilmdu od milhama [Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more]." Delegate after delegate shook Sharett's hand, patted him on the back; one even kissed him on both cheeks. No handshakes or kisses were offered by the Arab delegates who, furious over Israel's admission, had stalked out of the Assembly. Next day they were back, still fuming. A bunch of New York City Zionists, adding...
Then President Truman, who loves to trade Bible learning, quoted from memory another pertinent passage (Isaiah 2:4): "And . . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Fifteen minutes later they were still swapping biblical quotations when the President's secretary reluctantly broke in to announce the next caller...
...speakers are Isaiah Berlin, lecturer on Regional Studies, Albert Guerard, associate professor of English, and Alex Inkeles, lecturer on social Relations and associate at the Russian Research Center...
...bearlike Karl Barth of Basel, Switzerland, had jolted the Amsterdam delegates with a speech on the text: Take counsel together and it shall come to naught . . . for God is with us! (Isaiah 8:10). Perhaps, he said, the much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions...
...Bernadotte's coffin rested the Count's Red Cross cap, his Boy Scout stick, and a single white carnation. A Y.M.C.A. choir sang Bernadotte's favorite spirituals, Deep River and Steal Away to Jesus. The Lutheran pastor who delivered the funeral oration took for his text Isaiah 6: 8: "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send...