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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team of 20 missionaries, sponsored by no less than 84 different denominational boards, set out last September for a tour of 29 major U.S. cities. Everywhere, audiences crowded upon them-a total last week of 300,000 people. Heading the team were Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, famed as an evangelist to high caste Hindus and author of Christ of the Indian Road, and Hankow's Bishop Logan Herbert Roots, able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China...
Throughout the tour, little has been said of the Laymen's Report on missions which raised deepest theological questions, such as whether or not Christ should be proclaimed to the heathen as God (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932 et seq.). Nothing has been said of oldtime ''Hell-fire for heathens"; much of good works for all humans. Missionary Jones loves the Cross (which the Report does not mention), distrusts syncretism (fusion of religions, which he believes the Report advocates). In Boston he cried: '"Our syncretism is not a patchwork but a Personality. Not our Western civilization...
Incidents of the tour...
...home and national security abroad." Flaying this platitude as "weak and vague," the Paris Press clamored for an end to what was called "the massacre of Ministries." As yet no French would-be-dictator loomed, but that slashing Conservative, onetime Premier Andre Tardieu, get out on a stump-speaking tour of the provinces to thunder: "Liberty must be protected by Authority!" Though protesting that he does not aspire to become a Hitler or Mussolini, M. Tardieu warned that "There are rising at the doors of France regimes of mass dictatorships imported from Asia . . . demanding: in France a strong government conscious...
Meanwhile last week a squadron of French army biplanes roared across the Sahara on a null tour of French African territory which began fortnight ago, will last for another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...