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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the 18th Century until very recently, says Dr. Niebuhr, the strongest influence has been that of the Renaissance. But today, he believes, its failure has provoked a reaction which may destroy not only its errors but the very tolerance and faith in justice and reason which have been its great achievements. In this new reaction two men have been prime movers -Marx and Hitler...
...first school thinks Joseph Stalin may be playing a sly, lone, isolationist hand. It points out parallels, such as Kutuzov's reply to the British observer Wilson when the latter urged the Russian to destroy Napoleon instead of merely pursuing him. "Kutuzov told him plainly," says Eugene Tarle (Napoleon's Invasion of Russia), "that his aim was to eject Napoleon from Russia and that he did not see why Russia should waste her forces on the complete destruction of Napoleon, since the harvest of such a victory would be reaped by England, not Russia...
Responsible men who have talked with Stalin all come away with the conviction that he has the fixed determination to destroy Hitler's Army and to punish, man by man, Hitler's henchmen. He has, they say, a fanatical desire to keep hammering the Germans, to keep them rolling, never to let them get set for a counteroffensive. Some say he wants to raze Berlin, as so many Russian cities have been razed. They are unanimous in believing that there is no thought of a negotiated peace in his stubborn mind. They are satisfied that the reason...
...Your prime and main duty will be to take or destroy at the earliest opportunity the German-Italian army commanded by Rommel," Winston Churchill last summer informed General Sir Harold Alexander, his Commander in the Middle East...
Bell's seven fundamentals: 1) the things which matter most are beyond the power of the grave to destroy; 2) all men are made to live for one another in a mutually sacrificing sociality; 3) servants are literally more pleasing to God than masters; 4) only a fire of self-effacement can bring happiness to mankind; 5) the task of world improvement should not be left to future generations; 6) children are the most important people in the world and the Church should educate them; 7) it is immoral to lay up riches to buy exemption from productive labor...