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...Rudyard Kipling's God of Things as They are might have beamed kindly approval last week as the Protestant Episcopal Church wound up its 50th triennial General Convention in Denver, Col. (TIME, Sept. 28, Oct. 5). Of the controversial subjects discussed, almost all had been settled by compromise between Liberal and Conservative groups. Exception : present-day politics and economics, which the Bishops denounced vigorously in a pastoral letter addressed to all the Church. It asked that the U. S. reduce its armaments, confer and cooperate with other nations, especially through "existing international agencies" for world peace. Said the letter...
...bones of the English, wrote Imperialist Rudyard Kipling, the English flag is stayed. The bones of Americans, too, lie whitening around the North Pole, in Luzon, Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, at Peking, Château-Thierry, on the weedy bottoms of four oceans and "the seven seas." Most of these are military bones. But men die in the Foreign Service too. Last week Consul Giles Russell Taggart, technically on leave, died at his post in Belize, British Honduras, from injuries sustained in last fortnight's hurricane (TIME. Sept. 21). Grieved, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson announced...
...Harkness is a man who almost never says anything to the public. Re- sponding to Dr. Lang last week, while Poet Rudyard Kipling looked on and nodded approval, the Great Giver said...
Winnie Churchill today has a particular following which was not his 15 years ago. He has become the caustic, clever leader of the Tory diehards. Winston Churchill was a young army officer when Rudyard Kipling was writing about the Lord God of Hosts "beneath whose awful hand we hold dominion over palm and pine." Fervently as any of his generation has Winston Churchill believed in Great Britain's divine right to rule-by force. His grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough, descendant of that first Duke of Marlborough of whose going to war French children still carol...
Birthdays. Maj.-General Clarence Ransom Edwards, "Daddy of the Yankee Division" (71); Author Rudyard Kipling (65); Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield, chaplain of Manhattan's waterfront Sea-mens' Church Institute (60); ex-Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...