Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your reciprocal pat on the pagan back of the godless editor of McCall's Magazine [TIME, Jan. 6] seems to be a race to see who can be the most daring, the boldest, and the most shocking to moral standards, Christian conduct, and American tradition...
...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
...same is true of the movies. People love to see people get by with, get paid for, the very sins they do in secret. The secular press and the movies are doing more to hasten the downfall of America through moral bankruptcy and spiritual blackout than all other agencies of hell combined...
...belief of others. "They are frightened by the unruly aspect we present and they suspect us of a certain moral and intellectual bankruptcy. They are attracted by the apparent smoothness and efficiency of a society where conformity is the rule and where all men walk in step. That is why Soviet Communism can seriously challenge us for world leadership. The time has come when we shall have to put up or shut...
...London, who were about to start work on the crucial German and Austrian peace treaties (to be written in Moscow in March). Said he: "In the end, one must tell the Allies that total war also means total responsibility. . . . We are living ... in all disgrace and all privation of moral and spiritual qualities. ... To the German people this period . . . seems like an eternity of misery and hunger. . . ." Schumacher credited the Allies with many positive accomplishments in Germany, but criticized them for not "knowing what they really wanted...