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...fall hour exams would soon be separating the men from the boys. Howard Mumford Jones, Chairman of the American history committee, started a special program of extracurricular reading for freshman, because he said he felt that a required course in American history would amount to "indoctrination worthy of Hitler...
...Wells came to Harvard and declared that there would be no general war in Europe for at least four years. William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, claimed that Hitler planned to conquer the entire continent...
Oratory Like Hitler's? So far, the Graham team has avoided the errors that marred the 1954 crusade, such as the promotional brochure that infuriated Labor Party leaders by declaring: "What Hitler's bombs could not do, socialism did." Billy now is on good terms with Prime Minister Wilson, but last week, without pinpointing the enemy specifically, he declared: "I feel greater opposition than ever before." The crusade has been ignored by both fundamentalists and progressive theologians; the Archbishop of York issued a lukewarm endorsement, while Canterbury made it publicly and pointedly clear that Billy did not have...
...sharpest attack on Graham's methods came when he appeared on a BBC-TV interview program. One questioner charged that his emotional oratory had the same kind of hypnotic effect on a mass audience as had Hitler's; another railed at the "sanctified lies" of his campaign team and the "engineered emotion" of his crusades. Coolly, Billy replied that Winston Churchill had also used all the tricks of popular oratory. "Jesus Christ himself, and the Apostle Paul, talked to great crowds of people," he added...
...them that the United States was in danger, but there were also factions that continued to object to a declaration of war against Germany and its ally the Soviet Union. These groups, including the Harvard Student Union, did not support intervention until the Nazi-Soviet pact was shattered. As Hitler's armies rolled into Russia, the Student Union suddenly turned a complete about-face and came out strongly for an immediate declaration of war against Germany and the rapid dispatch of American troops to Europe...