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Ever since he got back from his 25-day immersion in Russia (TIME, Aug. 26) garrulous, sandy-haired Louie D. Newton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, had been sounding off to the press. Some of his Georgia neighbors thought he had come back sounding like a Red. To others he was just the same old Louie...
Last week, to hear Newton's full-dress "Report on Russia," a preponderantly female audience of 3,500 Georgians filed into Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium. On the sidewalk, two pickets, seedy representatives of "white supremacy," carried a crudely lettered banner denouncing Communism...
...climax of his hometown address Baptist Newton reached for a high ¶of Christian optimism in calling upon his audience to pray for the conversion of ex-seminarian Joseph Stalin. "Think what it would mean to the world if this man-the most influential man on earth-should stand up and say that he had returned to the faith of his dear scrubwoman mother...
Said leading Baptist Dr. Frank Tripp of Montgomery, Ala.: "It should be stated that so far as the Southern Baptist Convention is concerned, Dr. Newton did not go to Russia as a representative of the Convention and is not authorized to speak as a representative of the Convention, but . . . has a perfect right to express himself as an individual...
...other hand, Dr. James L. Baggott, top Atlanta Baptist, was more friendly. Declared he: "Dr. Newton represents the Southern Baptist Convention as president in his utterances more than any other man. I would say the Convention was ninety-nine and nine-tenths percent behind...