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Spiritually as well as politically Japan last week moved closer to Nazi Kultur. Founded in Tokyo under the sponsorship of Prince Sanetaka Ichijo was the Federation to Campaign Against Christian Organizations, whose doctrine, an unintended caricature of Nazi race-&-soil theories, affirms: "Japan is a land of gods. . . . Christianity offers a heaven of illusion and forces men to believe in Jesus Christ in the interests of the Jewish policy of world conquest. Such a belief would destroy Japan's policy. . . . Christianity, a device of Jewish origin which is encroaching on the Japanese spirit, must be eliminated...
...great Cardinal did these things, Carl J. Burckhardt's book described brilliantly this week. Carl Burckhardt is a Swiss and grandson of Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems...
...gift to the nation, and he commanded 70,000 industrial workers, farmers and soldiers to enjoy it before it closed at the end of July. Last week he sat among munitions workers and disabled soldiers who had been brought to Bayreuth in special trains to enjoy socialized Kultur...
Yesterday night, as I was beginning to read, in the French translation, the first chapter of the sixth part of Jakob Burckhardt's excellent work Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, one of my sons, who is always first to read TIME on arrival, entered my library visibly in a passion and there was in his voice a ring of indignation...