Word: visser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Galyatetö, near Budapest, for a meeting of the committee (TIME, Aug. 13). Rehabilitation was in the air and the Reds were courting the good opinion of the West; Dr. Fry seized his chance. He opened direct negotiations with the Hungarian government. Together with World Council Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft and Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover, Dr. Fry made many a hurried trip between Galyatetö and Budapest and sat through many a tough-talking session before the Communists gave Dr. Fry assurance that Bishop Ordass would soon be completely exonerated. In addition to rehabilitation...
...miles northeast of Budapest, the 90 committeemen, plus 300-odd "fraternal delegates," observers and assorted bureaucrats of the 162-church World Council gathered for their annual meeting. Before an assembly including delegates from Communist China, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland, the council's Dutch General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft said: "The World Council lives its own life in complete independence from any particular political system or economic system or ideology." To people who believe that the conflict between Communism and Christianity is not merely political, economic or ideological, but a crucial matter of faith, some...
Hint. In Sydney, Australia, Landlord Hermanus Visser was fined $225 after a special court heard that in an effort to evict his tenants he had changed the lock of their flat, put their furniture out on the lawn, taken out the living-room windows, disconnected the water, gas and electricity, demolished the chimney...
...assembly wound up its 17 days with some notable pieces of business. The delegates re-elected Dr. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft as general secretary of the World Council, elected Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, as chairman of the powerful, 90-man Central Committee, which will carry on the Council's business between assemblies, and decided to meet again in 1960. Of the final statements approved, the most noteworthy were...
...seemed to leaders of the World Council to be a reversal of earlier positions assumed by European Catholics and the Vatican itself. "For the absence of a bitter or aggressive spirit from the [cardinal's] letter, we may all be thankful," said World Council Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft in a prepared reply. But he expressed surprise that Stritch had not referred "to the official instruction issued by the Vatican on Dec. 20, 1949, which . . . left the door open for certain conversations between Roman Catholics and non-Roman Catholics ... in ecumenical gatherings, if the necessary ecclesiastical authorization...