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...twice their proportionate share of the nation's college students and only half their share of the jailbirds. But, beyond anything that statistics could express, the Jews' life under America's sheltering trees was a new experience after their long wanderings. Writes Historian Oscar Handlin: "Looking backward from 1954, the three hundred years of Jewish life in the U.S. seem an adventure in freedom...
...finishing touches on a comprehensive plan to make over the French economy-basically healthy but stagnant, timid and backward-looking-which he will present to the National Assembly this week. This may prove his toughest fight...
...Future. "A stage has been attained," concluded Mendes. "Now other stages present themselves." Mendès planned more deadlines. Within the next seven days he would demand "full powers" to make over France's backward economy. Within 14 days he expected to improve French relations with the embittered North African nationalists. His dynamism was unquestioned, and it had gained him the most notable French popularity since postliberation De Gaulle. Yet the cruel fact of this dynamism was that it had forced through an agreement that consecrated the delivery of 12 million Vietnamese to Communism, and that crippled...
Pocket-sized Albania has always been the most backward of the Iron Curtain countries and to the Kremlin presents the additional problem of being the only satellite isolated from Moscow by unfriendly territory (since the defection of Tito in Yugoslavia). Albania's 1,222,000 people, 70% Moslem, are vigorous and nationalistic. In trying to rule them, the Communists have involved themselves in a succession of purges and intramural rivalries. Last week a long-simmering feud between Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha and its Red police chief boiled up anew. When the steam lifted, handsome Hoxha...
...Step Backward. From Editor Peter Day of the high Episcopal weekly, the Living Church, came a tarter comment: "It is unfortunate that the Roman Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. is so exceedingly gingerly about contacts with their fellow Christians." More outspoken was the Christian Century, which this week discussed the Stritch letter in an editorial titled "The Gulf...