Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just read the telegram from John Huston and other Hollywood "firsts" in the April 20 issue of TIME. I feel gratified that these intelligent and courageous people have come to the defense of Lew Ayres...
...private in the Air Force, not by compulsion, but by desire. I am here because I want to see the new-world principles of free thought and free speech preserved. I have followed closely the furor caused by the flag-wavers who would deny Lew Ayres the right to do what so many Americans are too cowardly to do -stick by honest principles regardless of public opinion...
Most of us believe that this war is being fought so that people like Lew Ayres all over the world will be free to live and say what they please as long as it is not injurious to the public good. Lew Ayres, instead of being detrimental to our public good, is indicative of what the American people wrote into their Bill of Rights and what we fight our wars about -the right to freedom in a democracy...
Roughly, there are 2,500 men who do not choose to kill now in Conscientious Objectors Camps in the U.S. Doubtless, there are many more, in and out of the Armed Forces, who feel as Lew Ayres feels, but who are too weak to be nonconformists. Then, shouldn't we admire Lew Ayres because he is strong enough to face the suspicion, ridicule, and hate that is always the lot of those who do not choose to conform...
...book thus touted is Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...