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Delbert L. Barnett; Edwin E. Boysen; John D. Colhoun; John F. Harvey; Charles Jackson; Donald C. Johnson; George R. Kelley; Richard W. Lyons; E. Charles Palm; Harold C. Passer; A. Peter Ruderman; Donals H. Shaw; Stanley F. Wass...
...longer hated, are two Christian friends on whose support Christian Chiang Kai-shek is counting to free China from the non-Christian Japanese invaders. And the popular identification of Christianity with the Nationalist cause has gone so far that the China-trained head of the world Y.M.C.A., Eugene E. Barnett, has actually called it a "disastrous danger," fearing that religion may become the lesser half of the partnership...
...diversified are its activities that many an outsider forgets it is a religious organization, thinks of it as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with swimming pools, gymnasiums and clean beds. But Florida-born Eugene Barnett knows it where it is poorer and tougher, for this is his first job in 30 years outside the Y's foreign service. From 1910 to 1936 he was on duty in China. From 1937 to 1940 he was globe-trotting as head of the Y's World Service Program in 28 countries...
Secretary Barnett's experience with totalitarianism makes him think its attacks on religion and democracy may in the long run be a good thing. "It will force a re-examination of Christian principles," says he, "that will make men truer Christians." As part of its immediate program he wants the Y to play the same big role in the training camps that it has played in social work for soldiers since the Civil War. As part of its long-range program he wants to make the "C" in Y. M. C. A. stand for more positive Christianity-as powerful...
...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...