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Published in book form, as The Christian Heritage in America (Macmillan; $2), the sermons provide an informal, quickly read handbook of U.S. sectarianism. Methodist Hedley comes close to toppling over backwards in his effort to play no favorites, to find and set forth the essential good in every splinter of Christianity. But the effort is well made and to better purpose than merely striving to please. In opposition to those who would force all Protestants into a Procrustean bed of "unity" (as the Christian Century's fiery Charles Clayton Morrison would), Author Hedley sees no innate evil in sectarianism...
...story earnest Morris Muster told was a classic example from the handbook of Communist tactics. The first move had come, said he, as soon as the U.F.W.A. was born, in a 1937 merger of A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions. Communist-picked switchboard operators and secretaries were slipped in; they became the basis of an efficient espionage system. A sympathetic secretary-treasurer and educational director were maneuvered into office to give Communists access to union finances and membership rolls, control of union newspapers...
Bank of America employes pushed and prodded business. They got help from above. Said a B. of A. handbook...
...burning honesty. The author has glimpsed a vision which is greater than his ability to put it in practical terms. But this vision, which is no less than the revitalization of democracy, explains why Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil calls Reveille for Radicals "a life-saving handbook for the salvation of democracy," and why Philosopher Jacques Maritain calls it "epoch-making...
...discussion. Both are in dead earnest. Both gain importance from the magnitude of the subject they deal with. Reveille for Radicals is a plea to reintegrate along the lines of a "People's Organization" the fragments of the U.S. community. In part it is an organizer's handbook for the same purpose. To some it may sound like a new name for an old enterprise-social revolution. To others it may sound like a glad shout of: everybody join the daisy chain...