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...Tokyo Yomiuri Shimbun, the Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times and some 270 other papers in the U.S. and abroad, with a combined multilingual circulation estimated at 20 million. Lippmann's pronouncements on foreign policy are weighed with gravity, awe, annoyance, respect, and sometimes envy, by editors, pedagogues, logicians and statesmen, if not by the average reader...
...emphasized the present moment and neglected the past and the future. Using Berlin, Moscow has revived one of the oldest and bitterest cold war issues -the division of Germany into nations, one free, one Communist. Fearful of changing the status quo in Germany but equally fearful of doing nothing, statesmen of a dozen nations are today earnestly reexamining solutions to the problem proposed by ingenious men ranging from Poland's Communist Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki to Britain's Sir Anthony Eden. For a concise guide to these past proposals and the future possibilities, see FOREIGN NEWS, What...
Setting a suggestively useful precedent for unhorsed Asian statesmen, ex-Premier U Nu of Burma, who recently turned over his governmental burdens to General Ne Win (TIME, Nov. 10), donned saffron robes, humbly appeared with shaven head for his ordination as a Buddhist priest in Rangoon...
...Curtain countries. The church's strengthened spiritual posture was marked by the fact that under Pius 33 saints were canonized,*more than under any other Pope in this century. Its political success can be judged from the fact that, during Pius' reign, Christian Democratic parties and Catholie statesmen (De Gasperi, Adenauer, Schuman, Fanfani et al.) rose to power in Western European countries where only a few years ago anticlericalism was a major prerequisite for political success...
...very concept of the law, Pius felt, was breaking down. In his encyclicals and addresses he related natural law to the whole field of ethics, politics and the principles of society. Beneath the imperatives of the state or the vote, he reminded statesmen and voters, lies the will of God reflected in the social order...