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...left New York, and there were more of them at Santos Dumont. To the Jews and to his peace-loving Brazilian countrymen, he had a word of hope: "The wish to use words [in the U.N.] springs from the wish not to use arms." He had also a sober warning: "The world is undoubtedly divided into two blocs, the democratic and the Soviet. The work of all democrats and liberals must be devoted to attract back to liberty and democracy those who have renounced...
...imperative that some fresh and sober thought be given to the meaning of the separation of church and state. . . . To a very considerable extent, the Protestant mood has come to reflect the modern secularist attitude, which tends progressively to isolate religion from the more significant areas of the common life. Thus, appeal to the separation of church and state readily becomes an argument for silencing the voice of religion in the political sphere...
...Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, which began to form around George Fox exactly 300 years ago, has done its sober best to take away the occasion for war by refusing to bear arms. "The leveled gun, the battle-brand, we may not take," wrote Quaker Poet John Greenleaf Whittier...
...military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its Communists in the first months of its new constitutional freedom, and felt it necessary to use stern measures to meet the threat. But Rio's sober Correio da Manha warned: ". . . Now more than ever, democrats must be vigilant in the face of the intentions and motives of the reactionaries, fascists, integralistas and remnants of [Vargas'] New State...
Last week Bao Dai's carefree days in Hong Kong were at an end. Pretty little "Perfume of the South," his empress, had arrived in town with their five children. In her wake came a delegation of 22 Annamites. What the Annamites told Bao was enough to sober him. To the people of Viet Nam he issued a grave proclamation: "To avoid bloodshed, I renounced the throne of my ancestors. Since you wished to entrust the destiny of the country to new rulers, I decided to withdraw. Now in spite of the dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech...