Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian or any American be neutral?" - In Albany, N. Y., Bishop George Ashton Oldham (Episcopal) went Bishop Manning one better. The word "neutrality," said he, is "an abhorrent thing," and "isolation" is "a dangerous anachronism." ∧ Proclaimed Dr. Colder Lawrence (Methodist) of Tulsa, Okla.: "I hold with Thomas Mann that 'Christianity and Democracy deal with the same human stuff' ... I believe we should go in the war." His fellow Tulsan, the Rev. Edward Henry Eckel Jr. (Episcopal) quoted Dean Inge: "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism when the wolf...
THIS WAR-Thomas Mann-Knopf...
...LIGHTS Go DOWN-Erlka Mann-Farrar & Rineharf...
...Thomas Mann's life work is a series of huge, masked, intricate parables. His pamphlets are byproducts, but by no means negligible. This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness. It is, in essence, an exhortation to the German people to rise up and remove the rulers they have permitted themselves, without fur ther poisoning their integrity by awaiting the war's outcome ; and to take active part in creating, with the rest of Europe, the possibilities of freedom and of a lasting peace...
Less grandly and more directly, Thomas Mann's daughter Erika describes those whom such a plea might -could it reach them move. Her method is not oratori cal but artfully journalistic. Her book, subtitled Middletown -Nazi Version, is a narration of fact throughout, and she has taken convincing care that her characters and her facts shall be typical. In a prologue and ten stories she brings into detailed focus the nature of a nameless German city shortly before the war: the sickness of all its parts, the inchoate readiness of its people to overthrow the leaders they had accepted...