Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian censors don't get this letter, I hope that you will publish it and allow your readers a view of Canadian youth's outlook other than that of the official propaganda. Although we are painted as panting to go overseas and get killed for dear old England, the remarks I have noted among younger Canadians since the announcement that the U. S. was coming here to set up defense bases have been typically: "Well, it won't be long now, before we're all under Uncle Sam-and a good thing...
Last week, from Bulgaria, Correspondent Gedye had some interesting things to say about the system that had cost him his latest post. When the censorship went into effect on Jan. 1 the Russian Press Bureau clamped down with a bang, suppressing even such messages as "Censor will not allow this story to be sent." All unfavorable facts about Russia were promptly deleted from press wires, together with any comments or interpretation, any qualifying clauses crediting hypotheses to "the Soviet point of view." Even excerpts from the local press were erased if they hinted that all was not milk & honey...
...only false note of the entire conference after its chairman, President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary, key-noted its aims: "Our failure to harmonize science, philosophy and religion in their true relation to the democratic way of life has been a catastrophe. We must not allow Western civilization, already destroyed in much of Europe, to suffer any further disintegration. We believe that the military struggle in Europe is but one phase of a far greater conflict-the conflict between ideas which make for the development of human civilization and ideas which make for its destruction...
...message from Historian James Truslow Adams, too ill to attend the hearings in person: "Even in the United States the power of one man has become almost overwhelming. The longer it lasts, the more strongly entrenched it may become. If we break with usage and tradition and allow a man to retain such powers for twelve years in stead of eight, why not for 16, 20, or for life? Our world is changing fast and it can always be said that there is a crisis...
Fifty years ago few divorced persons were so brazen as to appear in any church. But like the horseless carriage, divorce has since become such a commonplace (16 out of every 100 U. S. marriages) that U. S. churches have changed their tune. Few officially allow their ministers to remarry divorced persons (save innocent parties in divorces for adultery) or admit them to Communion after remarriage. Unofficially, many U. S. churches allow both. Last week the relatively small (1,900,000 members) but influential Protestant Episcopal Church, which in law and practice has been among the strictest, made ready...