Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needed, a blessed convalescence, a truce of God and man." But, he said, "this is a time when hatred is rife in the world, when many branches of the human family, victors or vanquished, innocent or guilty, are plunged in bewilderment, distress or ruin. The world is very ill. . . . Mankind cannot in its present plight bear new shocks without descending to altogether cruder and primordial forms...
...Futilitarian Christian gadflies like Professor Reinhold Niebuhr among the Protestants and Dr. Fulton J. Sheen among the Catholics are filling the air with their veiled terrestrial defeatism. No hope for mankind on earth but in heaven if you believe. . . . No, the leap into supernaturalism, which hungry hearts took two thousand years ago to compensate for their frustrations, is hardly proof to intelligent minds today of the existence of such a world...
...impossible to have, today or in any near tomorrow, world government ".. because between the nations there is no unity of cultural aim, no shared conviction as to what life is about, no willingness to see mankind as other than atomistic and competitive. Each nation serves a particularistic ideology, follows its inherited prejudices, advances its own small self-interest...
...ruins of youth and the ruins of Buchenwald-who will clear them up? Answers Knauth: "Our responsibility for the Germans, like theirs and ours for all mankind, will never end. I hope that they and we will have the strength to fulfill the trust that has been imposed upon us all: the peace and welfare of our fellow...
...Gorky and Soviet Control Commission Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev (as if President Truman were to charge FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover with poisoning the late Will Rogers and Chester Bowles). And two facts are indisputable: 1) a whole generation of Russian Communists was officially liquidated in circumstances that may gratify mankind's sense of poetic justice, but outrages its sense of human justice; 2) Trotsky was assassinated...