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...reporting in detail on an uncommon conference, of which Time Inc. was a major sponsor, held last week in New York City. Inspired by Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), the 1963 encyclical of the late Pope John XXIII, the conference brought together more than 1,500 philosophers, theologians, statesmen and diplomats of widely different backgrounds from all around the world. In what were idealistic and admittedly quite general terms, they discussed peace and how it might be attained...
These overtones of violence and disorder gave all the more meaning to a unique, three-day meeting last week at the New York Hilton Hotel. There, under the auspices of Educator Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, scores of statesmen, diplomats, theologians and philosophers met to discuss the means and methods of bringing peace to the world. The participants included Protestants, Buddhists, agnostics and atheists; but the framework for their thinking was the vision of world order contained in Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth...
...bier will first lie in state under the oaken rafters of ancient Westminster Hall, in the palace that houses Parliament. Then it will be placed on a gun carriage and escorted by slow-marching troops through the silent heart of London to St. Paul's Cathedral. Statesmen and soldiers, old comrades and old foes will come from all over the world for the obsequies, which in scale and splendor will be unsurpassed by any funeral for a commoner in British history...
Inheritance alone would not give him his grip and facility at 23; with us hereditary statesmen and party leaders ripen later. Perhaps it is his American strain to which he adds a keenness, a shrewdness, a half-cynical personal ambition, a natural aptitude for advertisement, and happily, a sense of humor...
...understandably bogs down. Struggling to render a superbly organized book in capsule form, it is limited to film available in archives, all of it at least half a century old. The result is too often a barrage of names and statistics, accompanied by endless cycles of grainy newsreel footage: statesmen shake hands, famous field marshals solemnly confer, the 14-in. guns boom and recoil, the tanks rumble, the infantry scatters. And the audience fidgets, uneasily aware that the horrors of war have begun to seem less tragic than tiresome, and that a picture is sometimes less eloquent than...