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...authority. His similes were not up to Andrei Vishinsky's high standards, but he did his best. Cried Malik: "The Dutch reply is a cynical request by an aggressor for two or three days more to kill off his victims completely . . . Do the U.S. and Britain intend, like Pontius Pilate, to wash their hands of the matter...
...voices of Caesar and Napoleon, of Genghis Khan, George Washington and Pontius Pilate were never heard by posterity. But the voices of the captains, kings, heroes and villains of the recent past are on record and can be heard as long as the records last. The latest collection,* in an album of five Columbia records called I Can Hear It Now . . . , contains excerpts from famous broadcasts...
...Jerusalem, where Pontius Pilate once posed the question, newsmen again asked: "What is truth?" Last week TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs found, amid the confused and bitter fighting, that it was almost impossible for newsmen to answer...
...Says Davies (who objects to orthodox Christianity and especially the Apostles' Creed as inadequate): "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
...himself a "theological radical," is under constant attack by both right & left. Reason: he openly rebels against any political or clerical form which he believes is fundamentally empty. He regards the Apostles' Creed as inadequate. Says he: "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...