Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not be fooled by propaganda to the effect that the German people have been temporarily "debased" by evil leaders, Williams stated. As an irrationalist society they can not be changed by a mere dose of democratic education. They must be made helpless and harmless, "preferably in a world union, but by decimation and captivity if necessary...
Around this central theme weaves many a sequence illuminating the fight of good and evil in Kings Row. Dr. Henry Gordon (Charles Coburn), surgeon and sadistic moralist, unnecessarily amputates both legs of a likable good-time-Charlie (Ronald Reagan). Denounced by his distraught daughter (Nancy Coleman), he offers her a choice of silence or confinement in the insane asylum. Brave Randy Monaghan (Ann Sheridan), shanty Irish and desirable, marries her legless sweetheart and cables Parris to come home. The young medico returns, full of his new knowledge, to find that the ills of Kings Row are still beyond his scope...
These facts seem to indicate that perhaps the oft-repeated remarks about the evil War Profiteer might be brought out from beneath their bushels. Of course they do more properly belong to an era of bright peace, like the middle thirties when only Ethiopia and China were invaded. But even today they might be very lightly suggested, without sounding too much like the rantings of a pacifist from the Left. If the information sifting through from Washington is to be believed, the discussion of the evils of war profiteering might have stopped but the profits have not. It is interesting...
Fifty last week was Pastor Martin Niemöller, now in his fifth year in a Nazi concentration camp. In Britain the BBC celebrated his birthday with a German broadcast of his 1937 New Year's sermon on Germany's "de-Christianization" by "the forces of evil who despotically govern us." In the U.S. fellow German Thomas Mann paid tribute: "Here is a man who went his way to the cross with full awareness of the terror...
...World War II. Conspicuously omitting the 1917 declaration that America was fighting "to vindicate the principles of righteousness and the inviolability of faith as between nation and nation," the 1942 message said "we do not disclaim our own share in the events . . . which made it possible for these evil forces to be released," and urged that, "conscious, of our participation in the world's sin, we would be humble and penitent before God . . . and become His instruments for fashioning a free, just and neighborly world...