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After reading your interesting article [on nationalist growing pains in Africa, Aug. 31], I reaffirmed my belief that Africa should be governed by the black man. No one can supply the leadership needed for a nation if that person is not truly a native. England and the rest of Europe had better wake up to the fact that colonization is long since past. No tea-sipping, drab Englishman sitting in London or Johannesburg, regardless of his vast knowledge and experience, knows all the problems and needs of the African. NORMAN EDWARD ROURKE Tulsa...
...Unfinished Business." President Eisenhower, his personal leadership lifted to new highs of confidence by his triumph in Western Europe, was ready in the White House for whatever Khrushchev might bring. "The choice before world leaders is momentous," he said in a 15-minute TV talk to the nation. "It is my profound hope that some real progress will be forthcoming, even though no one would be so bold as to predict such an outcome. In this connection I know that neither America nor her allies will mistake good manners and candor for weakness; no principle or fundamental interest will...
...foreign authors have been presented to U.S. readers with the kind of endorsement that appears on the dust jacket of The Restlessness of Shanti An-dia. The testimonial was delivered in person by Ernest Hemingway, as Pio Baroja, 83, lay dying in his Madrid apartment three years ago. Said Hemingway: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved...
...similar individualism is found in respondents' views of the Deity. Only 18 per cent of all respondents indicated belief in an "infinitely wise, omnipotent three-person God Who created the universe and Who maintains an active concern for human affairs," 6 per cent believed in a unitarian God with the same attributes. By far the greatest number of respondents--24 per cent--believed in "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes sense him as a mighty spiritual 'Presence' permeating all mankind and nature." Of the non-believers, ignorance rather than denial was much more...
...apotheosis of relativism and tolerance. At Harvard the values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics. They become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants to embrace spokesmen for opposing views in a harmonious institution. Even the religious person, moreover the believer in salvation through a particular church, must divorce his role of believer from his role of teacher. If he would teach he cannot by direct methods fish for souls...