Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union in Manhattan, publicly and in more general terms. But the nub of his message was the same: that the West could not allow old rancors to divide it against the greater threat of the East. "Civilization is in danger," he said, "because of a clash between two conflicting moral codes: between Communism and Democracy . . . As a Christian soldier I declare myself an enemy of Communism and all that it stands for. Unless this danger can be held, great trouble lies ahead...
...gist of Tsiang's 17,000 word indictment was familiar, but it was being presented formally for the first time at the bar of world opinion. Russia, said Tsiang, had systematically given military, economic, diplomatic and moral aid to the Chinese Communist rebels. It was thereby guilty of violating both its treaty of friendship with China and the U.N. Charter itself. "I know that the General Assembly has not a single rifle or a single plane," said Tsiang. "[But] it has at its disposal a great fund of moral power over the peoples of the world...
Tsiang urged a moral judgment against Russia, a denial of aid and recognition to the Chinese Communists. "Let the General Assembly say to the millions of fighters for freedom in China: 'We are with...
...Niebuhr, professor of Christian Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion at Union Theological Seminary, has published books urging changes in Christian ethics. Two of his works are "Moral Man and Immoral Society" and "Nature and Destiny...
...Communists are the government of China. Starting from that fact, we have no moral or pragmatic basis for not recognizing them. Mao-tze Tung's men are neither the innocent agrarian reformers that some of their supporters would make them nor as much a tool of Moscow as the conservative press claims. Their leaders are Moscow-trained, but there are four factors which make their ties to Russia looser than those of the eastern European "satellites...