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...Washington this week, the Foreign Ministers of France and Britain will meet with the U.S. Secretary of State to ponder the state of the Western World. A "poor man's Bermuda" was what Washington wags called it, for this was a last-minute substitute for the conference of the Big Three leaders which was called off by the illness of Winston Churchill. The foreign secretaries will meet in less dramatic fashion in an air-conditioned room on the eleventh floor of the old State Department Annex. But their mission is just as important: to reinvigorate a taken-for-granted...
Novelist Narayan tells his story with an abundance of good nature. Let the philosophers of history ponder the formal gravities of the meeting of East and West, he seems to be saying. For a man with a novelist's eye, there is also plenty of warmhearted comedy in the situation...
...which German Protestants have learned, under Otto Dibelius' pastorship, is that they can no longer take their church and their faith for granted. The Lutheran fortress is under sharp attack. As Otto Dibelius prepares to mount the pulpit in the Marienkirche for his Easter-Sunday service, he can ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers have accused Bishop Hermann...
China's people could ponder another evidence of Big Brother's presence last week. All over the land little boxes were going up in the streets. They are called Denunciation Boxes. Chinese were invited to fill them with unsigned notes that could send neighbors to death or slave labor camps...
...Committee's card is any indication, aiding hard-pressed Indonesians to rebuild their nation is now charitable (Harvard-Indonesia project). So is financing student scholarships (the National Scholarship Service) and conclaves at Salzburg where students ponder Student Problems. The term charity needed stretching, granted, but some line will have to be drawn very soon. Even now, in our gloomier moments, we can see dim visions of classmates damning us for want of charity when we fail to donate a record sum for the 25th Reunion fund drive...