Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus far Japanese Christianity has shown little inclination towards martyrdom in either the early Christian or hara-kiri tradition. Significantly silent has been Japan's most famed Christian, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, a Presbyterian convert and founder of the Kingdom of God movement, who privately deprecates Japanese supernationalism but avoids public condemnation of it. When Christian Kagawa visited India last year, Mohandas Gandhi took him to task for this. Kagawa hinted that to speak might lose him his life...
...this week, when a compromise version of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill emerged at last from the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Henry Stimson's fire and logic had yet to convert many a doubter. Biggest obstacle to conscription still was the Congressional state of mind typified by Iowa's grey GUY MARK GILLETTE. Like most of the other opposition Senators, Mr. Gillette has voted for billions in emergency Defense appropriations. Last week he announced that conscription should be delayed until there is an emergency. For good measure, Guy Gillette also devised a new definition of military training: "This idea...
...really was better. There were still two wide rivers to cross. Their pet barometer, the stockmarket, was still flat on its back, had scarcely twitched since its recovery from the Blitzkrieg Collapse (TIME, June 3). And businessmen could not down the fear that taxes would rise faster than profits, convert the Defense Boom to a profitless prosperity...
...months after break of war, the Government accepted a long-proffered offer by Rogers-Majestic Corp. to convert its plant for production of small arms, parts or "anything that is wanted." Up to this week Majestic had not been told what is wanted...
...real purpose of Nazi Propagandists Goebbels and staff, Taylor declares, "was not to convert outsiders to their cause as commercial propagandists do, but to demoralize the enemy, to destroy the cohesion, discipline and collective morale of hostile social groups." This was first fully realized by the French General Staff, to whom military intelligence furnished manuals worked out by a psychological laboratory connected with the German Ministry of Propaganda. Object: to aggravate and confuse the struggles of interests and political religions in western Europe. Of the two principal religions Taylor observes...