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Danger Ahead. Everywhere else democracy and U.S. policy were on the defensive or in a frustrated deadlock with their enemies. Eastern Europe was closed to U.S. influence. Occupied Germany was a deepening morass of four-power conflict. France, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium were allowed to drift through a year of chaotic "peace." Spain was an embarrassing problem. Even U.S.-British relations had soured over the bungled preparations for the British loan. In the Americas, Perón prospered on Washington's opposition. In southeast Asia and Indonesia, restless peoples, driving for freedom, were losing faith...
...Federal Council of Churches, which last week differed from Winston Churchill on the drift of world affairs (see INTERNATIONAL), is the biggest single body of U.S. religious opinion. Its 400 delegates are the nominal spokesmen for some 27,000,000 members of 22 Protestant and three Orthodox church groups. Each church group is represented in the Council by four delegates, plus another delegate for each 50,000 of its communicants. The Council's chief purpose: "to secure a larger combined influence for the churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the people...
...Anointed. The novel recounted the modest adventures of a philosophical sailor named Harry Patterson. As transmuted by the Hollywood alchemists, Harry Patterson becomes Clark Gable, a noisy, sociable bosun, while the seagoing philosopher is a broken-down Irish deck hand (Thomas Mitchell). Trouble begins when the two of them drift into the San Francisco Public Library to do a little research on the matter of the Irishman's soul. There, looking icy and poised behind her librarian's desk, is Miss Garson. She seems bright enough to know a lot about the soul, not bright enough to steer...
...high, barbed-wire fence was small protection last week against the drift of fine snow across Indianapolis' icy airport. The fence was no protection against questions, either. But it served notice that CAA's Ground Controlled Approach (G.C.A.) equipment, housed in a chunky Army truck and trailer, was still a military secret...
...Britain & Russia would try again to stem the drift toward disunity. All were aware that the stakes were high; all carefully refrained from the optimism that had deepened the disappointment when the London Council of Foreign Ministers failed...