Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparent now. But the wish and the cry for it are here. If Europe's millions have any defined yearning, it is for a belief, a life, a place worth having and holding. The immediate symptoms of this half-conscious need are two common emotions, which will condition many of the attitudes which we encounter with our aid in Europe. One is pride. The other is guilt...
...Christian world, suicide was and is often accounted an honorable act. Christianity, which believes that every human life belongs to its Creator, has always regarded suicide as a sin. The so-called Christian world of today, sadly confused on matters of life & death, gives lip-service to Christian belief but takes its hat off and stands to attention before a deed of pagan virtue. This confusion was well illustrated last week by Unitarian Minister A. Powell Davies of Washington, D.C., who hailed Jan Masaryk's self-destruction as a hero's act. Wrote he, in the Christian Register...
...Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we have obviously ... been living on spiritual capital, I mean clinging to Christian practice without possessing the Christian belief...
Secretary Marshall, recalling World War II, talked in terms of theaters, choices and priorities. On China, his attitude had always been colored by the one failure of a distinguished career. He clung firmly to his stubborn belief that China could now rate no more than the attention of a holding action. This re-opened the question of whether the enemy should be continuously engaged on two fronts or be permitted to concentrate forces...
...formerly solid behind the Roosevelt symbol, currently divide into two camps of confused citizens sharing only restlessness and concern. Some intend to back Wallace to register a squawk; others may dislike Truman policies but will support him or, in greater likelihood, work for a better Democratic nominee, in the belief that a protest vote assuring Republican success is too-great a luxury today. Heading up the latter are the major officers of U. S. labor in company with old New Dealers such as Eleanor Roosevelt and upcoming politicians such as Minneapolis Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey. When this coalition assembled...