Word: paassen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week, in this simple ceremony at the First Unitarian Church of Essex County (Orange, N.J.), Pierre Van Paassen, anti-fascist and best-selling author, will become a Unitarian minister. Van Paassen will not have a church. He plans to write and preach throughout the country in the belief that "a small flame can set an immense heap of wood on fire...
Like many Unitarians, tall, wide-eyed Van Paassen was born in another faith,* like many he came from a family of clergymen. As a youth in Toronto (whence his family migrated from The Netherlands) he studied theology, was so fascinated by preaching that he chose the Methodist seminary because it offered opportunity for field work. But World War I interrupted his religious studies, sent him to France as a volunteer in the Canadian expeditionary force. Later, as roving correspondent for the late great New York World, he gained the high-powered inside information on European politics that made Days...
...year-old Committee for a Jewish Army, headed by aggressive Journalist Pierre Van Paassen (Days of Our Years, That Day Alone), found more than 1,500 distinguished citizens eager to sign its plea: they ranged from Episcopalian Bishop H. P. Almon Abbott to Sculptor William Zorach. At a dinner in Manhattan last week, about 1,000 of them applauded speeches which demanded immediate formation of the Army-made up of European refugees and Jews of Palestine and the Middle East-and criticized U.S. and British official delay...
Pierre Van Paassen, no Jew but a longtime friend of Zionism, set up his committee to seek, through U.S. pressure, what Britain has thus far refused. Britain permits Jews in Palestine to enlist as individuals (20,000 have); it has set up several all-Jewish regiments. But again last week it balked at an independent Jewish Army-largely because the British must also consider the sympathies of 30,000,000 Middle Eastern Arabs...
Against best-selling Current Historian Pierre Van Paassen (Days of Our Years, That Day Alone), the Duke of Hamilton filed suit for $100,000 libel. Complaint of the Duke, on whose Scottish estate Rudolf Hess alighted in the spring of 1941, was that Van Paassen hinted the duke had expected his guest, had been "colluding with the enemies of his country...