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...Norse religious resistance has been growing ever since the very first decree Quisling issued, directing every Norse child to join the Nazi youth organization. The seven Bishops of the State Church denounced this action as intolerable and resigned (TIME, March 9). Their stand was backed by Norwegians of every creed and class...
...where those ideas brought prison and poverty, finally excommunication. He fought for "freedom of the press, first, last and forever, compulsory free education, religious liberty, liberty of speech and universal franchise, and naturally, almost as a result of these things, justice, sweet justice, for everybody, regardless of race, class, creed or color." He was sometimes taken in by leaders like Santa Ana, but never for long. His wits were "intransigent and not for sale," and though he was afraid to die, "he was not afraid to suffer a long, miserable existence for the sake of his beliefs." He wanted...
...practical terms. It uses the lessons of the past not to tear down everything we have thought, but to build up a new and bigger vision of the world. We must grasp these ideas, says Lorwin, if we are going to revitalize democracy and make it the dominant creed of the coming...
...show his peculiar position as forerunner of the Nazis. Their idealism is precisely the "soaring into metapolitics" Wagner wrote of. This theory of Wagner Viereck holds in common with Jacques Barzun and Reinhold Niebuhr, and is backed up by Hitler's own words. Nazi metapolitics, however, though a definite creed, runs across the grain of western life. It exalts irrationality and denounces reason...
...parade-ground voice never faltered. The ceremony went ahead on schedule. Four Generals were on hand, 30 staff officers, a platoon of soldiers. Declared Major General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the Armored Force: "In this, the greatest democracy the world has ever known, neither riches nor poverty, neither creed nor race, draws a line of demarcation in this hour of national crisis...