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Like Rhee, Huh is a Methodist and has close ties to the U.S.; he spent the better part of twelve years of exile in New York, and his elder child (a daughter) is currently doing graduate work at Northwestern. Blessed with an independent income from land, Huh belongs to no political party, and between government jobs devotes himself to reading and study. When Rhee finally stepped down last week, Huh argued that as Rhee's appointee (he had just returned to the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary), he should resign, too. Persuaded to stay on as caretaker chief of state...
...largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. last week wrestled with its own particular version of the great debate over racial integration. Gathered in Denver's City Auditorium for the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Church, 788 voting delegates fought -sometimes bitterly-over a report by a 70-member commission hat in effect recommended continuation of racial segregation in the administrative system of U.S. Methodism...
...Embarrassing Central. The seeds of the problem were sown in 1939, when Methodists rejoiced in the completion of a long march to reunion after the split of the Civil War. Three separate churches -the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church-united in a single body made up of six "jurisdictions." Five of them are geographical; the sixth cuts across regional lines, is made up of 367,000 Negroes all over the U.S. At the time, this "Central Jurisdiction" seemed a happy solution, giving Southerners their segregation and Negroes a greater proportion of church...
...Jurisdiction, and "How often will the North Central elect a Negro bishop?" The report's recommendation: leave things as they are for the time being. "We must give ourselves to education and experimentation in the creating of a climate-spiritual and psychological-in which an inclusive Methodist Church will be a reality...
Countered Negro Pastor William James of Manhattan's Metropolitan Community Methodist Church: "The commission report tries to say to Negroes 'You be good boys and we'll give you what you want in the way of appointments, but if you try to integrate, we'll shut you out.' The young people engaged in the sit-downs are not going to take this." The most vociferous lay delegate, Chester A. Smith, 75, of Peekskill, N.Y., a retired court reporter who is a veteran of twelve General Conferences, joined with Pastor James in picketing the report...