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The South and Foreign Affairs: The Hope for Subcultures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1967

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12 It is rather odd that commentators on the South give so little treatment to these two churches. Of interest is the fact that President Johnson is a member of the Disciples of Christ, as was Lloyd George, who also led a war on poverty in 1911. See Dictionary of National Biography, 1941–1950, 515, 518.

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18 Amerika, du hast es besser

Als unser Kontinent, das alte,

Hast keine verfallene Schlosser

Und keine Basalte.—Goethe, “America”

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