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Although he urged annihilation of German leaders after the war, he did not in any way advocate such treatment for the guiltless German people, but rather post-war settlement based on Loudon began with the demand that law, legitimacy, and faith...
...which transcends national lines and, even in nations at war, remains unbroken. We do not fail to remember that we are united with our foes by a common humanity and by our common need of divine grace. We renounce hatred and vengeance. . . . That our nation is by no means guiltless of the sins of omission and commission which have made this war, we penitently acknowledge. . . . We do not concede, however, that the responsibility of America and of the United Nations for this war is of a piece with that of the leaders of those nations whose aggressions began...
...Kerr's fiery sentence, substituting the much more restrained: "We have no alternative as a nation but to engage in this war." Nevertheless, Presbyterians are still officially committed to "pray for and work for a righteous victory." The Presbyterians acknowledged that the U.S. was not entirely guiltless ("Our own hands are not clean, nor our own hearts without sin"), called on the U.S. to abandon isolationism forever and accept "her rightful share of the responsibility for building a world order," and declared that "our nation must be prepared . . . even at heavy sacrifice ... to enter a world society whose goal...
Hollywood has poured forth a steady stream of Kiplingesque spectacles glorifying the British Empire, and French films are not always guiltless of flag-waving either, though Danielle Darrieux is the best bit of Parisian propaganda we can think of. There seems little reason, why the Nazis should not also be given their day in court--provided their offerings are labelled and recognized for what they...
School officials promptly suspended 18 of Melvin Bridge's assailants, four of his avengers. A grand jury found Rosen guiltless, let him go. Baltimore's School Board started an investigation of anti-Semitic activities in Baltimore's schools; Jewish David Emrich Weglein, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a 'group of prominent Jewish citizens followed suit...