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...battle at Elverum, a siege at Narvik, Osloans knew nothing. When an isolated radio station high in Telemark kept broadcasting the fugitive Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...
...stand for the repudiation of war. . . . The Methodist Church as an institution cannot endorse war nor support or participate in it." Last December four of these U. S. missionaries-Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin of Muttra-sent a manifesto to the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow. Wrote they: "During the earlier phases of the missionary movement, it was natural to think compartmentally, religion in one compartment, science in another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross...
This India of ours is being dragooned into war against the will of the vast majority of her citizens. Failure to protest against this coercion would brand us as false prophets." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. Mindful of their church's stake, India's U. S. Methodist bishops straightway got their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to authorize the homecoming of Missionaries < Smith and Keene-who obediently went home...
...carefully ignores the Finnish question, except to say that America should avoid it. There is no support of Russia's invasion, no condemnation of Finnish "attacks." All the emphasis in this manifesto is upon the dangers of American involvement, the very real imminence of an anti-Soviet crusade. Even though this emphasis may in this case spring from a blind attachment to the Kremlin, the facts assembled are impressive, and serve to show that American idealism, and American big business are following conflicting paths. If the YCL can soft-pedal Finnish "aggression," there may be some hope left for unity...
...Robert Ley, Nazi Labor Front leader, cribbed a few words from Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, stole a sentence from Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried and made a speech last week. Right in line with the Nazis' new face-Lefting, Dr. Ley cried...