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...Lamb of God, an ancient symbol dear to most Christians, is an offensive notion to the Japanese. To them the lamb is "a dirty, stupid and cringing animal." The word lamb is "an epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." Thus, in Christianity and Crisis last week, wrote George S. Noss, Japan-born son of U.S. missionaries, himself a missionary in rural Japan for eleven years, now a teacher of Japanese at Columbia University. His thesis: the reason Christian missionaries to Japan have converted only one-half of 1% of the population is largely that...
...Germans have laid the heaviest cross. Almost all churches have been closed, some are "used for profane purposes . . . warehouses . . . a riding school." Even priests "who stood up for the German population under the Poles" have been persecuted. "Tabernacles have been broken open . . . the Most Holy Sacrament desecrated in the vilest...
...attack), Phil Murray plunged into his dilemma head first. He bitterly attacked the National Defense Mediation Board, from which he himself had resigned. He declared that A.F. of L. members of the Board, who had voted against a union-shop contract in the captive mines, were guilty of "the vilest kind of treachery," and demanded that the convention stand firmly behind John Lewis...
...President William Green: "I am going to tell you today that the head of one of your big international unions was sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years and six months for white slavery. . . . The man I mean is George Scalise ... a criminal of the vilest type." Thick & fast followed Pegler accusations that Mr. Scalise was a racketeer, had acquired a 27-room mansion out of his savings. "What have the New York police and District Attorney Tom Dewey's investigators to say as to his activities in the last ten or 15 years?" hissed Mr. Pegler...
...bitterest self-reproaches, occurring every few months, centre on his love of horse-racing. After winning ?4,000 at Newmarket he broods: "I herd with the vilest and stupidest and most degraded of beings. ..." After an evening with encyclopedic Thomas Babington Macaulay, Greville ranks himself with the worms, compares his mind to "a hurdy-gurdy in the Street" and Macaulay's to "the great Organ at Haarlem...