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...month ago China's Bishop Chen Wenyuan, steaming across the Pacific on a U.S. hospital transport, was thrilled when the ship sighted two Japanese submarines. This week in Manhattan U.S. Protestant leaders welcomed the 45-year-old Methodist Bishop ("China's No. 1 Protestant") as the unofficial ambassador of another famed Chinese Methodist, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
...basic propositions ("Six Pillars") for a "just and durable peace." Now, this late in the war, churchmen had grave doubts whether such a peace was in prospect. These doubts were solemnly stated to the President last week by: the ranking Episcopal bishop, Henry St. George Tucker; a prominent Methodist, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; and John Foster Dulles, international lawyer. After 40 minutes facing
...When the Methodist Church's Crusade for a New World Order (TIME, Nov. 22) closed last week, even the optimistic Council of Bishops, which led the campaign, was pleasantly surprised. For four weeks 23 teams of bishops, ministers, laymen, lay women, crisscrossed the U.S., held one-day meetings in 76 cities. Everywhere Methodists turned out with traditional fervor, prayed, sang hymns, heard addresses, climaxed the day by sending servicemen post cards with Howard Chandler Christy's picture The Prince of Peace. Total attendance at the rallies...
Briggs, the grand jury believed, had faked a letter from Harry Hopkins to Dr. Umphrey Lee, president of Southern Methodist University (who had never received it)-a letter that suggested that Hopkins wanted Willkie to get the Republican Presidential nomination. The literary hatchet-man who put it in a book thought it proved that Willkie was a New Deal stooge...
...Beacon's story came from the ex-chaplain himself: Dr. Norbett G. Talbott, pastor of the Methodist Church at Huntingburg, Ind. Last spring, Pastor Talbott entered the Naval Training School for Chaplains at Williamsburg, Va. He got along fine until course's end, when he was interviewed by three fellow chaplains of a survey board...