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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired, deep-eyed old Metropolitan Theophilus, 73, head of the American church, refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...
...What Patriarch Alexei is doing in Russia is all that he can do at present. . . . He has a very difficult task in attempting to propagate the faith. Despite the conditions he faces, he has finally obtained the Government's permission to open some of the monasteries and some of the churches. . . . The war was the main factor. . . . The Government found that the people didn't want to die for Karl Marx. Of course the people know that the priests can say very little out loud, even within the walls of the Church, but nevertheless the people wanted...
...procedure. This seems (although he does not say so) one of the most miserable jobs on earth. The British thought that each anti-Nazi speech by the President or a member of the Cabinet would be followed by a declaration of war. It also seems to have become increasingly difficult for Winant to speak of U.S. aid when he knew how small was the rate of U.S. production. Between the lines of Letter from Grosvenor Square one can see the misery of an honest and kind-hearted man hailed as a savior by a suffering people and acutely conscious...
Asserting that the most difficult part of the project still lies ahead, Richard said that the referendum has awakened widespread interest in N.S.A. and that "the organization will start to work immediately to show students just how it will affect the College...
...stop Brice and therefore the Yale team, MacDonald plans to play David Ogden, the best tackler on the Crimson squad, at right half instead of at his usual center-half spot. "Ogden's speed ought to make it difficult for Brice," Mac said yesterday. Don Louria, the regular left half, will switch over to center-half where Mac has been grooming him. HARVARD YALE Batchelder g Phillips Burrowes rfb Slade Scully lfb Joline Ogden rhb Andrews Louria ohb Stone Mavor (capt.) lhb Caulkins Spivak ro Richardson Potter ri Ford Estin or Aguirre of Brice (capt.) Chun ll Anderson Daswon...