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...Beatitude Miron Cristea, snowy-bearded Patriarch of Rumania's 13,000,000 Orthodox Christians and present Premier of the Government of its 19,000,000 people, last August delivered himself of an interpretation of Christian doctrine. In an attack upon Rumanian Jews, front-paged in his nation's press, he declared: "The duty of a Christian is to love himself first and to see that his needs are satisfied. Only then can he help his neighbor. . . . Why should we not get rid of these parasites [Jews] who suck Rumanian Christian blood? It is logical and holy to react...
Died. Heber Manning Wells, 78, first Governor of Utah (1895-1904); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Salt Lake City. Ex-Governor Wells, son of a Mormon patriarch, helped draft Utah's State constitution, helped achieve Utah's Statehood, which had been delayed because of polygamy...
Then Varnava, Patriarch of the Church, fell deathly ill and the Church showed its astuteness. By a Yugoslav law passed in 1930, the Patriarch is selected by the King from three candidates elected by prelates, Orthodox Cabinet ministers, State officials. The Church hastily excommunicated Premier Stoyadinovich and six of his ministers, thereby disqualifying them and postponing the election. The headless Church coasted along till the Cabinet should come to reason. Last month the Government capitulated, promised that the concordat would be dropped. Within a week the Premier and Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election...
...years ago the first volume of Thomas Mann's extraordinary Biblical novel, Joseph and His Brothers, made U. S. readers aware of the fuller meaning a great imagination could find in a bare, familiar legend. That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament story of the patriarch Jacob, his wife Rachel, and his sons, particularly his favorite. Joseph...
...proclaimed nationwide martial law, replaced the prefects of Rumanian districts with the local military commanders, and ordered all Rumanian citizens having arms or ammunitions to surrender them to His Majesty's Government. In morning papers, Rumanians read that shortly before dawn the Orthodox Church's venerable Patriarch Miron Cristea, 69, had been sworn in by King Carol, 44, as Premier of what His Majesty was pleased to call a "National Concentration Government...