Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the wry conclusion of Winfred Ernest Garrison, Spanish-speaking literary editor of the Christian Century, who went to Spain last August for the undenominational Protestant weekly. In last week's issue, Dr. Garrison concluded a series of four articles on his findings...
Side Streets Only. How many Protestants are there in Spain? According to Editor Garrison, they are "no negligible minority." Official Spanish sources have asserted that among Spain's 28 million people there are no more than 2,000, but Garrison puts the figure "probably not much below 20,000 . . . about the same fraction of the total population that the Quakers have in the United States." One source of uncertainty about the total, he says, is the Roman Catholic custom of counting anybody who has been baptized a Catholic, even though he may have since joined a Protestant church. This...
...tour of West Africa and the Canary Islands. In Morocco he watched heavily robed native dancers, graciously accepted from Moroccan notables the traditional gift of two camels. At Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canaries, the generalissimo gave an encouraging speech to officers of the local Spanish garrison, told them that the world was beginning to recognize the "reality" of Spain's cause...
...northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed likely...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...