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Snug in her cozy Suffolk home, small, bright-eyed, merry Lady (Dorothea) Gibb read an article by famed Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg exhorting his fellow Russians to hate the Nazis harder than ever. To so devout a Quaker as 83-year-old Lady Gibb, such talk was abhorrent. She penned a note to Comrade Ehrenburg, told him he was filling Russian minds "with something very old and evil, a thirst for vengeance after victory. . . . This does not bring happiness to the victor but only leads to sorrow and evil in the future...
Signed Lady Gibb last week: "Oh dear, what have I done now? ... I didn't expect my letter to be turned into a newspaper controversy. I wrote as a good Quaker. It won't do any good-all this hate. The ordinary people of Germany are having their punishment now. Their homes are blasted and ruined, their families are broken. I would not kill Hitler ... I should like to see him paint houses again and wallpaper a few homes...
Preacher Howard was a Quaker when he started out (he is now an ordained Disciples of Christ minister), but he was short on denominationalism, long on the love of God. He walked up & down the hills, holding revival meetings wherever he could gather a crowd...
...exhibit was staged at the Wildenstein Galleries by New York City's Quaker Emergency Service (local and foreign relief). The artists had been rounded up by the famed Paris dressmaker in absentia, Mme. Elsa Schiaparelli, and consisted largely of well-known European expatriates...
Refining his diagnosis, Professor Trueblood, a Quaker, declares of most current church practice: "What mankind desperately needs is Justice, Mercy and Truth, but what we are offered is some ugly stained-glass windows and a holy tone and a collection plate full of dimes...