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...Bishop Oxnam and John Foster Dulles, after protesting the first use of the bomb and pleading that the U.S. "follow the ways of Christian statesmanship," wrote warmly after the Japanese surrender of the American "capacity for self-restraint" and of the impressive "practical demonstration of the possibility of atomic energy bringing...
...assembled in Cleveland liked everything about the Dumbarton Oaks plan as it now stands. They had some grave objections, but they decided that since Dumbarton Oaks is all there is, better something than nothing. Said the president of the Federal Council, New York's Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam...
...Elected the Council's first Negro vice president (to serve with Manhattan's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, outstanding Methodist liberal [TIME, June 26], who was elected president, to succeed Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker). He is quiet, earnest Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, 49, Baptist minister and president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. A firm believer in education and patience as cures for racial discrimination, Baptist Mays is himself so tolerant that he has never once tried to proselytize his Methodist wife...
...Miles a Year. California-born Bishop Oxnam got his A.B. (and Phi Beta Kappa) at the University of Southern California, later studied at Boston University, Harvard, M.I.T., in Japan, China, India. After eleven years of pastoral work in California, he went back to his alma mater as professor of social ethics, then to Boston University, from which he was elected President of Indiana's DePauw University. He was popular with students (because he permitted dancing), unpopular with the American Legion (because he abolished the R.O.T.C.). At 44 he was elected Bishop - Methodism's youngest...
...Bishop Oxnam has made three trips to the Soviet Union. His admiration for Russia earned him a page and a half in Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network. In 1936, when Dr. Oxnam was made Bishop of the Omaha Area, Mrs. Billing got out a special anti-Oxnam pamphlet which messengers distributed at Omaha's eight Methodist churches...