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...Council's resolutions frankly reported a disagreement among its members, some holding with the Quakers that Christians are forbidden "to engage in war under any circumstances" while most believed that Christianity "demands that we defend with all the power given us the sacred rights of humanity." This time the issue of pacifism was sidestepped in the interest of unity, and Christian participation in the war is not included among the 13 points with which the message closes. Most significant of these 13 points are: > "To withstand any propaganda of hatred or revenge and to refuse it the sanction...
...drinkers need not worry yet. U.S. distillers have over 500,000,000 gal. of whiskey in warehouses, four years' supply. Furthermore, though forbidden to make neutral spirits for gin and "blends," distillers can still make 100,000,000 gal. of straight whiskey in 1942, about three-quarters of total 1941 output...
Divorced. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; on grounds of willful desertion in 1936; in Woodstock, Vt. The divorce was the second for each. Columnist Thompson received custody of Son Michael, 11. Writer Lewis was forbidden to remarry within two years without court permission...
...clamping down a tight censorship of news and photographs the eight westernmost states and Alaska last fortnight were officially made a "Theater of Operations." All news and photographs of troops, their identity, location, number, individual names was forbidden except with official sanction. The Navy next issued a strong warning "To the Public" with subheads reading: THIS IS A MODERN WAR-THIS IS A TOTAL WAR-THIS IS A HARSH WAR. It warned citizens not to discuss ships, sailors, weapons, casualties, ship damage or defense production. Still more drastically, Army and Navy on the West Coast began censoring domestic telegrams...
According to a 5 o'clock radio bulletin, censorship has been imposed on all communications to and from the United States, armed guards and air-raid precautions have been institutedin Washington, suspicious Japanese have been arrested, and all Japanese have been forbidden to leave the country...