Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promise & Threat. For sensitive Indonesians Dr. Van Mook's words held a threat as well as a promise. Were the Dutch planning to split the nationalist Government, to divide and rule, in the best tradition of European imperialism...
Next week, in this simple ceremony at the First Unitarian Church of Essex County (Orange, N.J.), Pierre Van Paassen, anti-fascist and best-selling author, will become a Unitarian minister. Van Paassen will not have a church. He plans to write and preach throughout the country in the belief that "a small flame can set an immense heap of wood on fire...
Like many Unitarians, tall, wide-eyed Van Paassen was born in another faith,* like many he came from a family of clergymen. As a youth in Toronto (whence his family migrated from The Netherlands) he studied theology, was so fascinated by preaching that he chose the Methodist seminary because it offered opportunity for field work. But World War I interrupted his religious studies, sent him to France as a volunteer in the Canadian expeditionary force. Later, as roving correspondent for the late great New York World, he gained the high-powered inside information on European politics that made Days...
...Unitarian Van Paassen's religion is far removed from orthodox Christianity...
...believe," says Van Paassen. "that it is now possible to impose the human will upon the cosmic process. I believe that the Kingdom of God. as a concrete politico-social state of affairs, can now become a reality because we have no choice but that or be annihilated...