Word: safran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertisement in the June 27 issue, Peter S. Safran, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., noticed a magazine which appeared to him to have its logotype purposely defaced or to be an international edition of TIME in Arabic. At any rate, he wanted to know which was correct,* and added: "If this letter proves nothing else, it proves how closely every page is read by TIME readers...
...finally I came across three pages which lifted my feeling of despair. TIME'S Religion department assures me that there is still reason to hope. Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...John Safran's dismissal [TIME, July 1] take place in these United States of America . . . ? Surely "Christian America" would not countenance a man's dismissal simply because he dared to discuss racial tolerance and equality-or perhaps our category of "self-evident truths" no longer contains the clause that "all men are created equal...
...except when by being so I might hurt the feelings of a first-rate citizen. I will be particularly careful to say nothing that will bring disgrace on the Pastoral Relations Committee, and glory and a future in the hinterlands on myself, as did my unfortunate predecessor, Pastor John Safran...
Last week Pastor Safran was assigned to a new post-in a rural community...