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...longer around. Coups have toppled the civilian leadership in most African countries, and a new generation of academically trained theologians is moving into leadership positions in the churches. Tensions between these two groups of new elites--those from Sandhurst, Saint Cy and West Point, and those from Oxford, Union, Strassbourg, and Tubingen--is a source of serious conflict between Church and State in Africa today...
...Paris taxi driver noticed in another gutter last week a gold medal, returned it in the same way to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. On his goodwill tour of French industrial cities Mr. Edge received the medal (commemorative) at Strassbourg, famed home town of pâté de foie gras (fat goose liver) a French delicacy greatly appreciated by most U. S. citizens...
...Founded in Strassbourg...
...Shortly after the armistice, students from ten different countries met at Strassbourg to found the International Confederation of Students. The aim of the newly created organization was to bring together the students of all countries into a cooperative movement in order to meet the material and moral needs of modern student life. At the time of the foundation of the C. I. E. the European student was faced with two vital problems: one, that of procuring his daily sustenance, the other, that of emerging from a four year's atmosphere of nationalistic orgies and distrust of other countries. The students...
...student sought. He was deeply interested in the question of how the young academic generation might help to make forever impossible a cataclysm like that of the World War. Let us create bonds of mutual esteem and friendship among students of the world' reads the first resolution adopted at Strassbourg, and the founders immediately inaugurated a detailed program for a re-establishment of international academic relations. They inserted the National Unions of Students to establish permanent commissions for international student cooperation and to send annually five delegates from each country to represent the students of their country at the congresses...