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Decision Before Dawn mirrors these moods and mentalities in some excellent German players, notably Hildegarde Neff as a lonely derelict of war who has sunk into prostitution, O. E. Hasse as a colonel sternly loyal to his professional creed, Wilfried Seyfert as a virulent SS man. Apart from U.S. occupation troops cast as wartime G.I.'s, the only Americans in the film are Gary Merrill and Richard Base-hart, whose roles as U.S. intelligence officers put them in support of a fine performance by Viennese Actor Werner...
...especially emphasizes the "regardless of race or creed" doctrine, taught in "that atheist post-hole," when referring to Harvard. "That's a blasphemy, that's what it is," he cries...
...witnesses spoke for the trustees. The Rev. Charles S. Hempstead, district superintendent of the Methodist Church, Dr. Russell D. Cole, president of a nearby Methodist school, and Methodist English Professor Miron A. Morrill all testified that a Christian can be defined as one who believes in the Apostles' Creed, e.g., the Trinity and the Divinity of Christ. Methodist Layman Stephen A. Cohagan, a longtime friend of the dead man, testified that this was what Dr. Small himself believed...
Then came witnesses for the nephews and nieces to testify that a Christian might believe almost anything, or nothing. As for the Apostles' Creed, said the Rev. Lewis L. Dunnington of Iowa City's First Methodist Church, "many things" in it are unacceptable to many Christians. On the question of the Virgin Birth, for example, "I tell my parishioners to pay their money and take their choice...
...learned the 13 points of the creed of the great 12th Century rabbi, Maimonides, the Jewish Aristotle: the belief in God's existence, in His unity, incorporeality, timelessness, and approachability through prayer; the belief in prophecy, in the superiority of Moses to all other prophets, in the revelation of the Law and its immutability, in Divine providence, Divine justice, the eventual coming of the Messiah; the belief in the resurrection and in everlasting life. He memorized the civil and canon law of the Talmud in great early-morning gulps, often leaving home at 5:30 a.m. to study...