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World War II has made patriotism a second religion for many a U. S. citizen. But not for Jehovah's Witnesses. The Witnesses believe that Biblical prophecies literally govern every earthly event, that the U. S. flag, financiers, politicians-and all religions but their own-are agents of Lucifer, who is at large in the world and now grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Witnesses have recently been mobbed from Maine to Cali fornia (TIME, June 24). Last week they suffered: 1) at Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Bricker refused to reinstate a canceled contract that...
...philosophical examiner was Dr. John Haynes Holmes in the Christian Century. His summing up: "If I want to bring clearly before my eyes just how . . . early Christians must have appeared to the highly respectable and patriotic Romans of their day, I have only to look at Jehovah's Witnesses today. . . . They are a peculiarly aggressive, even obnoxious set of people, at least as judged by ordinary standards of polite, conventional life. Thus, they are not satisfied to enter a town and hold a set of respectable public meetings and services...
...outsiders, Jehovah's Witnesses are without doubt the most irritating of U. S. sects. They clatter about the country in jalopies, often a couple to a car, the man in overalls, the woman in calico. They ring doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies...
...Cantwells were all arrested for soliciting money without a permit and for breaking the peace. Jehovah's Witnesses are used to that, and to fighting their cases through the courts, with counsel supplied by their organization in Brooklyn, N. Y. The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Jesse Cantwell. By last week his case had reached the U. S. Supreme Court.* His lawyer, Hayden C. Covington of Brooklyn, argued that the conviction violated Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes interrupted sternly...
...Supreme Court decision of 1938, that anti-pamphlet and handbill ordinances are unconstitutional, resulted from a Jehovah's Witnesses appeal...