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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events of deepest portent reverberated in the news. One was the still undigested fact of Russia's atomic bomb. The other was the shutdown in coal and steel, foundations of the nation's industry and its economic wellbeing. But the U.S., which had often been accused of reacting too violently to disturbing news, seemed to be accepting both events with almost studied indifference...
...Bible still holds its long-undisputed place at the top of the bestseller list, but to a vast proportion of its modern buyers, it remains a closed book. Texas newspaper Publisher Houston Harte (the San Angelo evening Standard and Standard-Times) often wondered why, especially considering that the Bible is full of dramatic stories and fascinating characters. When Presbyterian Harte asked his friends & neighbors, they agreed that biblical characters are awe-inspiring, all right, but that somehow they are just not like people in real life. Bible-Lover Harte began to think about how to make them more...
Most of the 200-person U. S. delegation claimed only to represent "people interested in the preservation of peace." The majority of the group held political opinions ranging considerably to the left of the Progressive Party. A fluctuating minority, often no more than half a dozen people, contained members of such organizations as the American Friends Service Committee and the YMCA; a few independent students were included in this minority. Three delegates went to Harvard...
...that the U.S. Embassy took a strong interest in the leaders and the political affiliations of the members, and that embassy officials frequently attempted to question delegates as to the composition and leadership of their group. But Warshaw and other returning delegates note that the head of the delegation often used fear of the embassy as an "emotional tool" in running their meetings, and that at least one delegate admittedly falsified a report in which he claimed he had been pressured into "turning over names to Foreign Service officials...
...certainly left-wing and just as certainly not a communist, a distinction which a number of people can't be bothered to make nowadays. In public speeches I have often heard him condemn the present dictatorship in Russia; I have also read an article in which he condemns the Atlantic Pact (International Journal, April '49; see also "Correspondence" in the July number.) He steers difficult course quite honestly and openly. To the right wing he's a commie; to the commies he's a "social fascist," whatever that means. To me, and, I should think, to most people he would...