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Last week the American Legion passed a spine-tingling resolution: "In defense of all it holds sacred, the American Legion has fought in three wars-yet this was not enough. Now the world must make its bloody choice between human dignity and godless tyranny . . . In the forefront of this combat, many Legionnaires will fall. For those men who are about to die, the American Legion has dedicated itself to call for and develop, among the citizenry of our land, the leadership it will require to win this world decision...
Black Monuments. Without naming either F.D.R. or Harry Truman, Eisenhower by implication accused them of having been too soft toward the Communist threat, both at home & abroad. "We have been too ready for too long to trust a godless dictatorship," he said grimly. "Think of the places that stand as black monuments to this misplaced trust. Our loss of China, a divided and almost naked Germany, the enslaved countries of the Baltic and the Balkans, the long and bloody struggle in Greece." That morning, Ike had said goodbye to his son, Infantry Major John Eisenhower, who is soon to leave...
...square, Eisenhower made a short Flag-Day speech. The American flag, he said, stands for a civilization built on religious beliefs. "And now another type of civilization challenges it; a civilization based upon the godless theory that man himself has no value...
...same device before to parade his causes, and once to promote a short-lived amnesty for the Huks in 1948, which Taruc used to his advantage and then violated. But his specific and detailed renunciation of Soviet Communism was something new: "It negates the existence of God ... advocates a Godless society. As a Christian, I cannot fathom the depth of the spiritual emptiness of living under such a kind of society." Stalin's Russia, the letter continued, is "a ruthless form of tyranny perpetrated upon a hapless people." Even when the party line says to dissemble, Communists...
...simply reported that out of a group of 31 children evacuated to the country, 19 did not know who was born on the first Christmas Day. The paper was hardly on the street before hundreds of Britons were writing in, blitz notwithstanding, to deplore the work of "our Godless schools...