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Five years ago a distinguished Russian-born scientist named Peter Kapitza committed an imprudence. He was, at the time, comfortably installed in England. His mistake was that he went back to Russia...
When Dr. Lane started his difficult job, he got an encouraging but not enormously helpful letter from Peter Kapitza. He has not heard from the prisoner scientist since. Apparently the Soviets disapproved the correspondence...
Lord Lothian was indeed ill; he was dying. In the big, red-brick Embassy in Washington the Ambassador, a devout Christian Scientist, lay suffering the final ravages of uremic poisoning that to his faith was real only to the material world, unreal to the world of the spirit. Since his return to the U. S. from London three weeks before, the hearty, ruddy-cheeked Ambassador had gone out little. But sometimes he would ask old friends in for brief, quiet talk, of no immediate relation to war and his work, as if wanting to reassure himself that they were still...
...sign of defeat marked Lord Lothian's manner, just as, a few days before his death, he gave no sign of his illness. As a Christian Scientist he believed that his real life lay in the world of thought, and that he could go through unpleasant material experiences by not making a reality of them. Last week those who heard his Baltimore speech, with its description of Londoners under fire-stubbornly denying the ultimate reality of the bombings-felt that it applied as keenly to his own denial of his last illness...
More than 80% of the prisoners in the concentration camps are not Jews but Christians, and the best tribute to the spirit of Germany's Christians comes from a Jew and agnostic (TIME, Sept. 23) - the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein. Says...