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...organization would bear out the fears of those who doubted the wisdom of his appointment. Even if the divinity student now under consideration could always muffle his natural inclination to extend religion in PBH's activities, the precident of a sectarian Secretary would be established. And eventually, some future zealot would act to end the fine tradition of service without reference to any religious belief. The Graduate Secretary should continue as a secular post...
...zealot of the left, David Ben-Gurion, the shock-haired dynamo who is Premier of Israel, used to promise full-fledged socialism in Israel "in my lifetime." Each trying, hard-won year of the new republic, however, has found B-G preaching less socialism and seeking more capitalism. Last year his Mapai (Labor) Party was urged to form a stable, powerful cabinet with the free-enterprising General Zionists (Israel's No. 2 party). B-G cried "heresy." Never, said he, could his democratic, planned-economy socialists unite with such exploiters. Privately, B-G had another concern. He feared that...
...phrase "banned in Boston" has long been a liberal's irritant, a zealot's satisfaction, a publisher's pleasure and a reader's guide...
...other Latin Americans rallied to intercede for the zealot. From Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and El Salvador flowed petitions and resolutions. Puerto Ricans in New York City formed a Save Collazo Committee, got 30,000 signatures on a clemency petition. From Puerto Rico came messages pointing out that the island has no death penalty. Last week Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Mufioz Marin sent an urgent telegram to the White House. The U.S. State Department advised the President that the execution of Collazo would damage U.S.. relations with all Latin America. Eight days before Collazo's anticipated...
Should this not be the case, the only other plausible explanations, then, for the attitude of the ones who broke the news, are either childishness and irresponsibility or the fanaticism of a zealot. Both can be as dangerous, if not more, than the first alternative...