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When Theophilus sent Bishop Benjamin Basalyga of Pittsburgh, a group of several hundred White Russians in Japan, most of whom have recently taken out Soviet citizenship, requested Patriarch Alexei to supply a spiritual leader for the Japanese church. Alexei promptly raised the ante; he offered (through Soviet General Kuzma Derevyanko in Tokyo) to send in two bishops. Few Japanese converts to the Orthodox Church had supported the request to Alexei, and the Russian bishops were not allowed to enter...
Alexei has had considerable success in encouraging pan-Slav propaganda and promoting other Soviet aims in the Iron Curtain countries. But elsewhere Alexei is not having much luck. Most Orthodox clergy are nonpolitical, like Tokyo's new Bishop Benjamin, of whom TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans cabled last week: "He is a simple, soft-spoken man who constantly rambled into a report of his sewing school, showing little interest in the ado over his bishopric...
Obviously, Bishop Benjamin would be difficult to convert to Alexei's viewpoint, best revealed in a recent statement: "The main thing the Russian Orthodox Church achieved during the war was to show the entire world its complete unity with its Government...
American history will take the spotlight March 4 when Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, delivers the first of eight lectures on "The Federalist, Its Political History and Its Place in American Constitutional History...
Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 36, baseball's current home-run king, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 31, an heiress to Gimbel Bros.-Saks Fifth Avenue millions: their first child, a son; in New York City. Name: Glenn Hank. Weight...