Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open its charge against Japan, with whom it has a year-old Neutrality Pact. If things were going peacefully, Russia would be unlikely to engage in public recrimination. Significant, too, was the fact that through the strict Soviet censorship last week came this sentence in a dispatch from Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Soviet Union has done everything possible under the circumstances to fulfill its obligations under the Pact . . . [but Russia] has never failed to make clear that it believed the Japanese attack [on the U.S. and Britain] was aggressive and treacherous...
Klieg lights played on the pink marble head of Lenin, brooding in the great hall of the Kremlin; on the thousand heads in mid-Asian skullcaps, scarves and army caps; on the calm, mute face of Stalin; on the discreet face of Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; and on Molotov, crying to the members of the Supreme Soviet...
...round up the two-thirds' majority required to get the war resolution reconsidered, he and his cohorts spent two busy hours lobbying among the Assembly's 900-odd Commissioners. Their renewed offensive won a break-through just before adjournment. Then they succeeded in striking out Dr. 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...
Presbyterians. At Milwaukee shrewd, silver-tongued ex-Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr of Pittsburgh caught Presbyterian pacifists off guard on the next to last day. In a silencingly eloquent speech he got the Assembly to declare that "the cause for which our nation is at war is just and righteous, and that our freedom, our culture and our historic faith are dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." This is the nearest a major church on either side of the lines has officially come to calling World War II a holy...
...triumph, Dr. Kerr left a dangerously exposed theological salient by declaring that the Christian faith is "dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." Few theologians of any denomination hold such a belief. They say that Christianity can lose a war, can even go underground for centuries (as it did in the catacombs), but that, because of its divine origin, Christianity's fate is never wholly dependent on such worldly things...