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Fifty years ago, speakers at the first congress of the Baptist World Alliance pounded the rostrum in London's massive, red brick Royal Albert Hall, predicted that the Alliance's next meeting in London would find the world's 6,000,000 Baptists doubled in number, London's streets less congested, pubs banished and the Church of England separated from the state...
...quickly won his first victory when the executive committee voted, 96 to 87, to replace Martinaud-Déplat by a seven-man administrative committee. Back from lunch came the delegates, full of vim and vin rouge, for the rest of the battle. When Mendès took the rostrum, there was a crashing ovation. A fist fight broke out on one side of the hall...
Livid with rage, his eyes bulging behind their glasses, sweat gleaming on his bald pate. Léon Martinaud-Déplat took the rostrum to answer. "The passion which has been expressed here, the hate on certain faces," he cried, "is plain for all to see." He sneered at the "new left," which. he said, goes from sectarianism to collectivism, with a whiff of Gaullism. Some of his speech could hardly be heard over a chorus of whistles, groans, boos and shouts of "Resign, resign...
...historical cliches, few have been more persistent than the notion that between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance stands history's Great Divide. From his new rostrum as professor of Medieval and Renaissance English literature at Britain's University of Cambridge, C.S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis has joined a campaign to give the cliche its honorable discharge. If there is a Divide, says he in his recently published inaugural lecture, it is "the [division] in the history of the West that . . . divides the present from, say, the age of Jane Austen and Scott...
Lips tight with anger, Faure sprang to the rostrum. "There have been neither threats nor blackmail on the part of our allies," he snapped. "But is it abnormal, is it surprising that our continual hesitations, our twistings and turnings, have troubled our allies? Let's not forget the past. Who asked for the Atlantic pact in the first place? It wasn't America. It was Europe. We feared that there would be no more American troops in Europe, or that the American troops would arrive too late." Bluntly, Faure warned: "We cannot always change our minds after having...