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Excommunication. In the absence of precise knowledge, the Vatican has leaned over backward to avoid alarmist or inflammatory statements. In February, Zdenek Fierlinger, Czech Vice Premier, published an article in the weekly Parallèle 50 (named for Prague's latitude) in which he boasted that two Czech bishops, "loyal" to the government, had ordained as priests the first group produced by Catholic seminaries since control of these institutions was taken over by the Communist government. At the time, Rome refrained from any suggestion that the officiating bishops acted improperly...
Literacy & Progress. Duane Hatch began his career in 1922. He was a Y.M.C.A. worker with a new Ph.D. (in sociology) from Yale. As headquarters for his work, he picked the Travancore village of Martandam, in one of the most backward parts of southwest India. His mission, then as now: to teach the villagers how to help themselves...
...Three Words in No Time," which was produced by the Poets' Theatre last month, is fundamentally a much more orthodox kind of play than Brccht's, in spite of its many anomalies and tricks. Phelps, poor backward fellow, is tied to the convention of idiosyncratic characters with names (which help distinguish them from other characters). So, although the poetry frequently wanders off the edge of strict meaning and leaves one a trifle bewildered, one is always bolstered by the thought that the ideas being expressed have a definite relationship with the character who is expressing them, and that...
...million enlightened people can still whip 190 million backward people ... If they [the Russians] declare war now, they are really fools. They cannot win on the global picture instantly and quickly by a complete knockout. They would face a long, bitter struggle of attrition against the United States, and [the American] people-when they are united under an attack-are still the most powerful force on this earth under the Almighty himself...
Chiang, of course, has always harbored visions of riding back into Peiping on a read, white, and blue tank, but it is difficult to believe that he could win any popular support or succeed militarily. Dissatisfaction with the backward policies of his former Nationalist Government led millions of Chinese to place their hopes in Communist promises of improvement and land reform. Although there have been isolated guerrilla outbreaks in the south, there is no clear evidence that these bands would join the Nationalists. It is just as possible that an invasion by Chiang in cooperation with a foreign power would...