Words & Works

P: In Chicago, the Southern Baptist Convention, which has admitted Negroes to membership for several years, but has not yet allowed a Negro to vote, urged at its annual meeting an end of resistance to racial integration. The convention called on police and the courts to protect the Negro, "irrespective of his position or culture, from lawless attacks upon his person or property."

P: Faced with an explosive plan to merge the Church of Scotland with the Church of England, appoint elders for the Anglicans, elect bishops for the Scots (TIME, June 3), the Church of Scotland's General Assembly decided not to decide, post-poned action for a year. Rumbled the Scottish edition of the Daily Express: "Instead of the sudden death it deserved, this iniquitous proposal is given another twelve months of dangerous life."

P: The word Christian will be dropped from the title of the Unitarian monthly Christian Register (henceforth to be called the Unitarian Register). The American Unitarian Association at its 132nd annual meeting declared in a resolution: "It is our desire to encourage all religious liberals, whether Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucianist, Hindu, Moslem or others, to unite with us."

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