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...just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently in big guns and big navies but does not tactlessly preach his belief from public platforms out of working hours...
...Franciszek Skalski, 6 ft. 7 in., of Luck, Poland. Educated at the Grand Seminary of Luck (St. Stanislaus) and the Universities of Warsaw and Paris, Father Skalski is now professor of Modern Theology, Church History and Sociology at the Grand Seminary. He is in the U. S. to preach in Polish at Polish churches in the East. When he arrived, tall Father Skalski was photographed with average-sized Owen Murphy, a deck steward who was his altar-boy for masses on board 5. 5. Berengaria. Father Skalski speaks English with a booming voice, a French accent and many an interjected...
When Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old blackamoor, went from Cincinnati to Georgia to preach Communism he forgot that in 1866, to prevent white men from seizing the government, some Georgians of his own race, aided by carpetbaggers, had passed a law making it a capital offense to "attempt to incite to insurrection." Last week in Atlanta Angelo Herndon heard himself accused of attempting to set up a "Black State," heard Georgia's white assistant solicitor general ask twelve white men to condemn him to death...
...Tokyo, Lieut.-General Araki wiped from his dreams of conquest Siberia but not Manchuria. He managed to retrieve his reputation by courage during the earthquake. As Chief of the Military Staff College until he was gazetted War Minister last year, he stood upon the supreme rostrum from which to preach (behind locked doors) the subjugation of all Manchuria...
...that it was a major milestone in the development of church doctrine, church organization both home and abroad. And slowly the realization grew that Re-Thinking Missions had as much significance for Protestantism at home as for Protestantism abroad. Must not a home-church as well as a mission preach a Way of Life rather than threaten hellfire? Should not churches unite against atheism and secularism? Is not economy and centralization as necessary at home as abroad...