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...idea of U.S. atomic superiority, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N. last week, "is a mere fairy tale ... an echo of the olden days of 1946 and 1947. The Soviet Union does have the atomic bomb and does have the hydrogen bomb .. . . The Soviet Union is not behind other countries in this respect, other countries which, I may add, perhaps may not have all the armaments of this type which the Soviet Union has." Was Vishinsky bragging emptily? Washington correspondents, after taking a few soundings among the close-mouthed U.S. atomic experts, concluded: "If he is not precisely...
...OLDEN JR. Lagos, Nigeria, B.W.A...
...thing, the crisis in its present dimensions affects the nation as such, rather than the people as individuals; only later will they feel the result of inequalities in a worldwide exchange of goods far from the British hearth. Last week, in a speech that rang with the fervor of olden days, Winston Churchill did his best to shake the British out of their complacency. The crisis is "scarcely less vital," said he, than the dire days when the Nazis rained bombs over London...
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...marked contrast to Christianity's promises of salvation, Jewish religious thought concerns itself primarily with the here & now, says Bernstein ; the Jew's chief reward for an ethical and God-centered life is the good life itself. "Most Jews have assented to the judgment of an olden rabbinic teacher who, after describing our earthly life as an antechamber, added, 'One hour of repentance and good deeds in this world is better than the whole life of the world to come...