Religion: Undesirable Aliens

The unblinking eye of the Cook County (Chicago) Council of the American Legion scanned the roster of 450 Protestant leaders from abroad who have been invited to the World Council of Churches

Assembly in Evanston, Ill. this summer. Four of them struck the Legion council as so "antagonistic to capitalism and to America" that the Legionnaires urged the State Department not to admit them: Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft of The Netherlands, General Secretary of the World Council, Methodist Bishop Theodor Arvidson of Sweden and two of the eleven delegates scheduled to come from behind the Iron Curtain—Dr. Joseph L. Hromadka...

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