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...China? Yes-but not for the institutionalized missions of the recent past. To make any headway in a China overrun by Communism, missionaries will have to go back to Christian beginnings. So says Journalist Robert Root of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, just back from a tour of the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionaries to Communism? | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...greatest present danger from science-induced increase in population is in the Orient. ". . . Relatively inexpensive health services [have reduced] death from epidemic diseases, even though the level of living . . . rose very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Standing Room Only | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...religious; you go to church; he plays tennis with the vicar. ¶ I have about me something of the subtle, haunting, mysterious fragrance of the Orient; you rather overdo it, dear; she stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Highly Irregular | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Grew, United States pre-war Ambassador to Japan and earlier to Turkey, started his career with the State Department two years after graduation in 1902. He entered retirement in 1944 after serving as Under Secretary of State upon returning from the Orient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Grew, Fuerbringer, Amory Top Crime's 'Seventy-Fifth' June 8 | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Prospective missionaries to the Orient will find some sobering reading in the words of Anglican Bishop Stephen Charles Neill, now traveling in Asia on behalf of the World Council of Churches. To the British weekly Record Bishop Neill wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yes, but Not All | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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