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...trouble. Having promised to get the British out of Egypt, if necessary by force, he could not perform his promise. Egypt's under-equipped 80,000-man army, which the Israelis whipped decisively, was no match for Erskine's veterans. The government faced the disappointed wrath of the very crowds it had incited...
...lead article by Eugene Lyons. Mr. Lyons titles the article "Our New Privileged Class"; he is piqued that there are people who have been accused of communist sympathies (by such sources as Louis Budenz and "Red Channels") but have not been struck by "the lightning of society's wrath." He shows a picture of the State Department's John Carter Vincent, and underneath runs the stinging indictment: "From China to Switzerland to North Africa." At the top of another page is a string of photos labeled "Dear to the Hearts of Left-wingers are these controversial figures." Here we find...
...must preach a social gospel, but we must first of all preach the Word . . . To call the wrath of God a metaphor, to smoothly rationalize Hell, to smother the Cross in sentimentality is to play havoc with Christianity; you may have a religion left, but it is not the religion of the New Testament...
From his headquarters in Innsbruck, Zagon keeps in precarious touch with Catholics inside Hungary. Refugees report that despite persecution of the hierarchy, parish churches have never been so full. Because almost any preaching may expose them to Communist wrath, priests have taken to reading from the gospels in place of preaching sermons. The prayer "Free Me from Evil" draws such a response as to be almost a political demonstration...
Take Care of My Little Girl (20th Century-Fox), based on Peggy Goodin's 1950 novel, tilts at the evils of the U.S. college sorority system. Even before the film was made, het-up sorority sisters blasted it like fruit growers protesting The Grapes of Wrath. Most moviegoers are likely to find it a fair enough indictment of the abuses of Greek-letter societies. They are less likely to get as worked up over the problem as the picture does...