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...with force. Next, we should take the offensive, drawing first Latin America and then other nations into our new "World Empire," suppressing communism as we go. At home, Burnham would have us illegalize the Communist Party and crush all its "fronts;" his black and white approach leads him to lump the Federation of Atomic Scientists with "The New Masses" in this category. Communism, he trusts, will die for good when once it is suppressed...
...growing ranks of Protestants who are raising this pertinent question. This week, the Christian Century published Layman Luce's speech. Excerpts: , "Between us and the early church is the obvious difference that we Christians have become a great thing in the world. They were the leaven in the lump; we have become the lump. ... If today the laws of human society are not in conformity with the will of God, we cannot say that it is because God has not given us enough votes! ... To have such power and not use it is certainly to be wicked and unprofitable...
Perennially brickbatted Sculptor Epstein got another lump on the head-this time from the famed Tate Gallery (which owns six of his sculptures). The gallery trustees-all except Sculptor Henry Moore -voted to refuse a sculpture which had been offered as a gift: Epstein's Lucifer, which he considers one of his major works. "The trustees," Sculptor Epstein thereupon told the world, "are a lot of nincompoops-except Moore." He explained further: "There have always been some people who do nothing and are against those...
Neither were Ike's denials good enough to convince skeptical Democratic and Republican politicos. Until they got a more emphatic brushoff, the professionals would lump him in with such other artful dodgers as Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman...
...calling the Assembly in the face of a Communist boycott, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek underscored his recent military victories over the Reds. He could proceed -unilaterally, if necessary-to establish the forms if not the substance of democracy, could tell the Communists and other dissenters to like it or lump...