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...among Protestant churches, English and American Methodists have led the way by suggesting that their next conference be held jointly, as a prelude to corporate unity in 1950. Meanwhile one vehicle of interfaith cooperation among China's religions was already functioning in the All-China Inter-religious Associa tion. Its board members : Roman Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin (now in the U.S.), Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen, Buddhist Abbot Tai Hsu, Moslem General Pai Chung...
...Berlin, cocking an ear, could hear the enemy admitting that the system was formidable. Admiral Sir William James warned his country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...
...reward of generosity is favorable publicity. Thus life for Julian and Amanda is an intense jitter of methodical planning to do things which give them no real pleasure. Even their off-hours have to be rationed to the last minute: "SLEEP (for efficiency purposes) 7 hrs. 18 min. ; CONVERSA TION WITH STAFF (for good-will and esprit de corps purposes) 12 min.; TALK WITH BARBER OR MANICURIST (for purpose of man-in-the-street comments on affairs) 15 min.; JOKE with storekeeper (for aid to digestion...
...believe that many boys of exceptional talent, but without financial resources, are unable to obtain specialized training at a time when the na- tion needs every possible skill and resource for the war effort," officials of the College said. "These scholarships, large enough to pay a student's entire college expenses if necessary, are designed to help remedy this situation...
...dipt into the future far as hu- man eye could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be. . . . Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federa- tion of the World...