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by James O. Henry Chairman, History Department, Biola College ership” role. Both developments are viewed abroad as evidence of contin uing stresses and strains within the army. Some sectors of the army op pose excessive political indoctrination, asserting it is at the expense of train ing in militapr technique. These sec tors also agitate for more modern weapons, a lack of which lies behind Peiping’s disparagement of nuclear arms. Church Bingo Assailed Eighty-three members of a Bible class had to meet in a bedroom re cently in England because the church hall was being used for a bingo ses sion. The Bible class superintendent, Cyril Morley, called it “ ‘outrageous that children should be forced to hear the Word of God in a bedroom while a church hall is used for such an evil thing as Bingo.” But the cur ate of St. Chads Church, located at Kirley near Liverpool, the Rev. Peter Hiscok, said: “We need the money for church funds.” The Bible class had been using the hall for a year but the Curate said that Monday would be bingo night from now on. East Germans Turning to Church The people of East Germany are going through a period of “ unpre cedented misery,” and are turning to the church as the only source of com fort and hope, Dr. Kurt Scharf, chair man of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, has reported. Dr. Scharf spoke at a conference in West Berlin attended by leaders of the Evangelical Church Day Congress. Launched in 1949, the movement is a permanent institution aimed at en couraging laymen to participate in religious and public affairs. “Not even during and after the ghastly days of the 1945 breakdown have depression and despair been so great as they have since the Communists closed the bor der between East and West Berlin,” said Dr. Sharf. “ In this situation, a hunger for and a confidence in the church as the only institution able to offer comfort and hope, has become stronger than ever. In their unimagin able distress, the people go to their pastors to throw open their hearts and pour out their souls in despair.” THE KING'S BUSINESS
Catholics Train Own Peace Corps
Some forty or fifty young Ameri cans in a new Roman Catholic “peace corps” will be working in Latin Am erica by year’s end, a church spokes man said recently. The Rev. John J. Considine, director of the Catholic Welfare Council’s Latin American Bureau, said the American Catholics, called “ Papal Volunteers,” would not duplicate the governmental supported work of the Peace Corps. Father Con sidine, a member of the Peace Corps, advisory board, said in an interview that “ thousands of American Catho lics will join the Peace Corps, realiz ing that their service is secular.” The “ Papal Volunteers,” he said, “ will work under local church authorities in Latin America, combining religious and social work among the poor.” The “ Papal Volunteer” idea stems from a call by Pope John XXIII in May, 1960, for greater church efforts in Latin America, according to Fa ther Considine. More than eighty American Catholic bishops have since promoted the volunteer idea. The first volunteers were accepted for training last spring. This move would indicate that the Catholic Church is keenly aware of the inroads that both Pro testants and Communists are making in Latin America. Thought Control Pressed in China The political commissars in Com munist China’s army have been in structed to apply thought control more effectively. The official army pa per, Liberation Daily, declared in an editorial that the political commissars, or “ cadres,” should “regularly learn the thoughts of the soldiers, which are reflections on the implementation of instructions of the central authori ties.” The cadres should learn a sol dier’s state of mind and grasp his trend of thought, the paper said. “Above all, they should know how to defeat ‘seedlings’ of thoughts so that they may forestall ideological problems with ideological work as far as possible,” the article declared. This new campaign follows the introduc tion of changes in the army last year aimed at strengthening the control of the cadres and clarifying their “ lead-
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