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...constitution to be written next fall will make a point of separating church and state. Ben-Gurion and other leaders rarely turn up at synagogues. Jews are not supposed to travel in vehicles on the Sabbath but they do today in Israel. Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, a brisk, urbane statesman, did not even wait for a reporter to ask him about it. Said Shertok: "And if you're going to ask whether the trains and buses are going to run on the Sabbath, I can tell you right now-they...
Thank you for printing, in your admirable Religion section, the New Statesman and Nation's attack on us. It is a choice example of the odd logic of so many of the assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody...
...Laurent has something of the stature of an elder statesman but he has never been a rough & ready politician. No other Liberal has St. Laurent's qualification: widespread support in both French and English Canada. But in the give & take of practical politics...
Basil Kingsley Martin, the cheerfully scolding editor of Britain's weekly New Statesman and Nation, looks like a nonconformist minister-which his father was. In his column last fortnight, he let fly at one of his favorite targets-the Church...
...advice came not a minute too soon. The Republican Convention had proved that most people's unretouched faces look terrible on the TV screen (TIME, July 5). Helena Rubinstein leaped into the breach with television preparations suitable for statesman or starlet...