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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of Europe's refugees is one of the biggest challenges ever presented to Christian charity. For three days last week, a group of eminent churchmen and laymen met together in Salzburg, Austria to wrestle with the problem of the 300,000 refugees of German origin now in Austria. The conference, called by the World Council of Churches, decided that all refugees should be classified together, regardless of race or religion, given special stateless passports and placed under the responsibility of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...Samuel Johnson, "the great convulsionary, [was] a kind of intellectual John Bull, dogmatic, tough and rather insensitive . . . beneath [whose] assured demeanor lay a torment .of apprehensiveness, doubt and misgivings . . ." His antics suggested St. Vitus' dance but were actually of psychic, not organic, origin. Obsessed with a sense of guilt and fears of insanity and death, Johnson prescribed his own remedy for fits of melancholia: busying himself with involved arithmetical problems...
...weak heart finally forced Bridges to settle down in Buenos Aires. There, before his death in 1949, he wrote his book. It contains many of the faults its author saw in his first draft, which "like the country of its origin, was criss-crossed by precipitous gullies interspersed with tangled thickets and bogs." But readers who follow daredevil Author Bridges' trail will hardly care to complain about a few irregularities in the terrain...