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Down with the old "The World Council of Churches has become an ecclesiastical United Nations, a place for power plays." So lamented a leading U.S. orthodox theologian, John Meyendorff, last week during a meeting of the council's 140-member central committee in Jamaica. What worried Meyendorff and some others was that the council's approach to Christian unity has become too political. The central committee reaffirmed the council's Program to Combat Racism, despite church protests over its $85,000 grant to Rhodesia's Patriotic Front for "humanitarian programs." The front's guerrillas have...
After spending six months in the Ellis Island Deportation Quarter, Alexander L. Meyendorff, graduate student here last year and former member of the American Communist Party, has been released pending the final disposition of his case, he revealed yesterday in a letter to the CRIMSON...
...Meyendorff was confined last June because of his Communistic affiliations, and his native country, Russia, has refused to take him back because of the war conditions...
...relative of the man who slew Rasputin, Meyendorff has been in this country since he was 11, and he has obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in America. Last spring he applied for a passport back to Russia, and when it was refused, the government instituted proceedings against...
Much mystery still cloaks the Meyendorff case. New Republic, on September 15, reported that he had been refused a five year visa, and the date of his hearing is not known...