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Twenty leaders of South Africa's blacks and coloreds-among them Dr. James S. Moroka, Christian president of the African National Congress-were tried last week for violating the Nationalist government's strict Suppression of Communism Act. Nobody, including Boer Judge Franz Rumpff, thought that Dr. Moroka was a Communist, but the law holds that "any doctrine or scheme . . . which aims at bringing any political, industrial, social or economic change ... by unlawful acts or omissions" is Communism...
Paul-Emile Léger, 48, Archbishop of Montreal and a member of the Sulpician order. Archbishop Leger spent six years teaching in Japan, was later appointed rector of the Canadian College in Rome (1947-50). An outspoken, rigidly pious man, he has campaigned for strict enforcement of Canada's liquor laws, against bingo, lotteries, stag parties...
...shabby old woman, her hair tucked beneath a scarf in the strict Orthodox manner, circulated sadly among the studious rabbis who live close by the Arab sector of Jerusalem. To each she told the same tear-stained story-two relatives of hers, a man & wife, were shortly to be put to death by the Americans...
...added for innovations since Davison retired, except that new members are added only on the basis of vote and quartet trials to keep the membership down to 140, and strict training and 11 p.m. bed hours are no longer of served on trips. But the Glee Club has never lost its hierarchy; it boasts more assistant managers (20) than the football team...
...chance of passing the Senate, would therefore be of no real help in the fight against discrimination. He favors state FEPCs, and has promised that as President he would do everything in his power for state legislation against discrimination, including presidential influence on governors. He also promised strict anti-discrimination policies in federal employment...