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...PERSECUTED-"We wish to give offense to none; nay, we desire freely to pardon all and to beg this of God. But our conception of our holy office demands that we do all we can to protect the rights of our brethren and children, that we persist in our asking that freedom of law ... be granted, as it ought, to everyone ... If the rights of God and religion have been ignored or trampled on, the very foundations of human society, sooner or later, collapse into ruin...
...cargo never comes. Then, instead of abandoning the cult, they tend to form splinter groups, organized around a "purer" faith. As long as the islanders' social situation remains unchanged, says Worsley. the cargo cults persist, but with the development of modern political forms, they begin to wither away. "In Melanesia, ordinary political bodies, trade unions, and native councils are becoming the normal media through which the islanders express their aspirations ... It now seems unlikely that any major movement along cargo-cult lines will recur...
...lightweight crews persist in turning in extremely good clockings in time trials. Wednesday the varsity shell rowed the course in 6:46.5 under fairly rough conditions, beating the second boat by a length of open water...
...DELHI, India, March 24--Peace was restored in Lhasa, the two-mile high capital of Tibet. Amid indications that Red China's troops had stemmed the weekend revolt, there was speculation that guerrilla warfare might persist in the countryside...
...know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? ... It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them...