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...future role of his church in Germany, Father Roth has positive ideas: "First, the church should be more active in social welfare. Secondly, we must find the possibility for the closer approach of the two confessions [Catholicism, Protestantism] to each other with the smallest emphasis on differences. Thirdly, we must lead the life of the Catholic Church out of the purely traditional to the convincing and important task of awakening man's love for his fellow...
What can be done? UNRRA, the American Red Cross, Europe's handful of doctors have failed to stop the white plague's spread. This month one of Europe's smallest countries, Denmark, will launch a brave try. Its weapon: BCG vaccine (TIME, Nov. 11), which in Danish tests has reduced the T.B. rate to one-seventh that among the unvaccinated. In the next few weeks Danish Red Cross teams, each consisting of a doctor, two nurses and a secretary, will go to Warsaw, Budapest and Rendsburg, Germany, to begin vaccinating their populations, children first...
...imbroglios of this sort the crux of the matter is size. To read the papers one gathers that the concert business is a giant industry, instead of what it really is: the very smallest part of the amusement world...
...iron curtain of the Soongs and Kungs," he railed. He lashed at T.V. from every point of the pamphleteer's compass, denouncing not only his policies but his personality: "Haughty and taciturn. ... As for his knowledge of Chinese culture, even after chemists analyzed it down to the smallest fraction, one can hardly find any trace...
...then, should a world-minded university teach history? Britain's famed Historian Arnold Toynbee answered: "To explain the history of your country or my country, the smallest unit that one can take into account is Western Christendom. . . . But it, too, turns out to be inadequate. . . . Western Christendom is merely one of five civilizations that survive in the world today [the others: Orthodox Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Far Eastern]. . . . Within the last four hundred years all five have been brought into contact with each othe. . .as a result of successive expansions. . . . [We historians] must make the necessary effort of imagination...