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...British India they have a large stake: 334 missionaries, 256 churches, 106,237 members, a 1939 budget of $857,479. Last autumn, when Britain entered World War II, it declared that India went with it. To some militantly pacifist missionaries, this declaration ran smack athwart the Methodist social creed: "We stand for the repudiation of war. . . . The Methodist Church as an institution cannot endorse war nor support or participate in it." Last December four of these U. S. missionaries-Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin of Muttra-sent a manifesto...
...subject. Eleven days later, when the President had still not refuted the story, Big Jim spoke up, said feelingly in a speech: "We must never permit the ideals of this republic to sink to a point where every American father and mother, regardless of race, color or creed, cannot look proudly into the cradle of their newborn babe and see a future President of the United States...
...action. Eloquent Laborite Herbert S. Morrison wanted "more vigor and liveliness" in war and diplomacy than he felt Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who turned 71 at week's end, has been giving. Retired Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Sir Warren Fisher was blunter. "We are up against the creed of the devil," he said...
...persecution of a weak, homesick child named Emery. As their pubescent restiveness mounts they are caught up in a wave of sadistic evangelism and in their efforts to spread the gospel of "cleanness and hardness," strip the weakling before an open window, force him to repeat the Apostles' Creed. Other developments: abortive homosexuality; a movement to crucify a boy who is suspected of being a Jew; ruinous invention of rumors about English Master George Toppan's misconduct with the headmaster's niece...
...Cling to the Christian ideal . . . it is only by force on the battle ground that evil can be resisted." The group of undergraduates thus addressed did not respond; it persisted in motionless silence. "The racial doctrine as interpreted in the Nazi creed is sheer, primitive nonsense . . . be proud of the race to which you belong"--Still no hurrah shouts from the audience. The catch-words of 1914 do not catch any more; their halo has faded out in the grisly twilight of reality. British youth knows that war is a messy business; and it refuses to believe the old-school...