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Pariah? Up to last week Uruguay was the only nation in North. Central or South America to have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich and pious, is a thoroughgoing Soviet-ophobe. Mexico extended recognition only to withdraw it with loud complaints of Communist propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania...
Because she admires rich, pious Conservative Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett as much as she despises poor, pious Pacifist Prime Minister MacDonald, Lady Houston picked a likely horse last year, named him "R. B. Bennett" and had the satisfaction of seeing him win the North Derby at Newcastle. Last week in her large fore-cabin aboard The Liberty she haughtily received the manager of London's Saturday Review, which she owns. Cringingly he told her that the leading wholesale newsdealers of Great Britain, on advice of their solicitors, had refused to distribute the next copy of the Saturday Review...
...once rallied to the daring German Protestants. "We Catholics cannot afford to sit coolly or gloatingly by." declared the Catholic organ Germania. "This anti-religious new heathenism is on a much lower level, even, than pre-Christian heathenism, which at least honored its gods and was in this sense pious...
...Abolition of the Califate (Islamic Papacy) and perpetual banishment from Turkey of all members of the once royal and spiritual House of Osman. 1925-Turkish men coerced to wear the hat instead of the fez, Turkish women encouraged to drop the veil. (To pious males hat-wearing caused spiritual agony, since the brim of the hat prevented them from touching their foreheads to the floor in prayer and Islamic ritual demands that one pray covered...
...entire Anglo-Catholic wing of the Episcopal Church-some 2,000 clergymen -converged last week upon Philadelphia for a Catholic Congress to celebrate the "Catholic Revival" whose centenary fell last July (TIME, July 17). Throughout the land the pious had wished the Congress well with a novena (nine days of prayer) for "the revival of religion in America...