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...Point against Churchill. On one of the touchiest long-range points, the conference sided squarely against Imperialist Churchill. No single nation or empire, said the Protestant leaders, should be left solely responsible for the progress of its colonies or other dependencies toward full autonomy (the conferees did not say "independence"). Instead, the welfare of subject peoples should be made an international responsibility, vested in a special international agency within the world organization...
Said Casey Jones last week of Dillard Stokes: "He has handled probably the touchiest material we have printed in years, and he has been right all down the line." Another tribute to Stokes came a fortnight ago from Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Said the Senator, denouncing the prosecution of the alleged plotters as "a disgrace": ". . . You are nothing but a stooge for the Department of Justice, a little newspaper spy; it's a dirty business you are in and the time will come when you will all regret...
...been many explosive sessions of the different delegations, the Indian and the English delegations got together and reached an agreement to the effect that negotiations must be reopened immediately on the question of Indian freedom. This statement was accepted by the rest of the delegations. India is probably the touchiest question on the diplomatic horizon at the present moment, and it is a definite achievement that representations of the students of both England and India could reach a compromise satisfactory to both of them, instead of a stalemate...
...guise of a series of historical novels, Novelist Lion Feuchtwanger has for years been discussing one of the touchiest of age-old issues-the Jewish problem. The nub of this problem is the never-ending tug-of-war in the Semitic mind between nationalism (atavistic) and internationalism (idealistic)-a nub made spiny with the misunderstandings that this cryptic conflict causes in whatever alien community it takes place. Author Feuchtwanger has embodied this struggle in the character of First-Century Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus (The Jewish War), historical hero of the fictional trilogy of which Josephus and the Emperor is volume...
Having furnished a battleground in which Jews could toss grenades at each other, the Christian Century last week dropped an editorial bomb of its own. On the touchiest subject in Christian-Jewish relations it said...