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...incompatible with Christian belief. A basic weakness of his own church's missionary work, he concluded, was that it sought to explain religion in terms derived from Plato and Aristotle. To Indians, with no tradition of Western philosophy behind them, this kind of teaching seemed remote or meaningless...
Last week, after repeated protests to the Reds, State did what the Russians wanted: it closed up Amerika. In retaliation, State ordered the Reds to stop U.S. circulation of the Soviet Embassy's U.S.S.R. Information Bulletin and other embassy pamphlets, a meaningless counterblow, since the Reds can print all the propaganda they want to in Manhattan's Daily Worker and other Communist publications. Said the New York Times: "The suspension of Amerika is regrettable because it was the last direct means of giving the Russian people a glimpse of American life and American aims in refutation of Soviet...
Everyone an Actor. But there was much that television missed. The camera failed to pick up such dramatic moments as Tom Dewey's walkout during Dirksen's nominating speech for Taft. At critical points in the proceedings it often seemed unsure where to look, fell back on meaningless long shots of the convention floor...
...Toronto who acted as chairman of the arbitration board: "[The ruling] reaffirms the very fundamental principle that if there is a breach of contract, the party in default has got to answer for the breach." And unless the board could assess damages, Laskin added, its ruling would be meaningless...
Fortunately, these reviewers do not represent our American culture, in which belief in God is a tremendously vital factor. Otherwise there would be terrifying truth in the meaningless gaucherie ("If Chambers is right in believing the major bulwark against Stalin to be faith in God, then it is time for men of conviction and courage to take to the hills") with which one reviewer writes off the noblest act of courage our generation is likely...