Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion & Racism Sir' In alleging that Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers advocate the practice of brother hood as a consequence of having been "brain washed by left-wingers and Communists" [TIME, Sept. 29], Governor Faubus pays the Communists an unnecessary and unmerited compliment. The Communists do seem to know more about brotherhood than Faubus does, so he could, with profit, go to school with them. But the idea of the brotherhood of all men derives rather from certain Old! Testament writers, the Stoic philosophers, or Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
...View from Abroad Sir: Please convey to Angie Evans for her cou rageous stand for school integration [TIME, Sept. 22] the sincere congratulations of young nonwhite South Africans, who know only too well the suffering and humiliation of their brethren in the Southern states of America...
President Eisenhower was quick to express his own and the nation's grief at the death of Pope Pius XII (see RELIGION), whom he "was privileged to know personally" in an audience in 1945. "An informed and articulate foe of tyranny, he was a sympathetic friend and benefactor to those who were oppressed, and his helping hand was always quick to aid the unfortunate victims of war." wrote the President. "A man of profound vision, he kept pace with a changing universe, yet never lost sight of mankind's eternal destiny...
...wealthy Bengal family,*graduate of Britain's Sandhurst, a major general before independence, he had long regarded most politicians as "crooks and scalawags." A Moslem who drinks whisky, smokes, shoots and rides, Mirza has always been blunt about his aristocratic creed: "Democracy requires breeding. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do . . . There has to be someone to prevent the people from destroying themselves...
Communication. "Away with the barriers! Break down the barbed-wire fences! Let each people be free to know the life of the other people; let that segregation of some countries from the rest of the civilized world, so dangerous to peace, be abolished...