Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Niebuhr [TIME, Oct. 21] states that Military Government vetoed a provision in the Bavarian constitution calling for a planning commission, "on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy." The proposal was not for a planning commission but for a planned economy within Bavaria. The Germans were told by Military Government that the question of planned economy or free enterprise was for them to decide, but that Bavaria was too small to have a planned economy all by itself regardless of the other parts of Germany. Nothing was said about a planned economy being incompatible with democracy. Since...
...their decision to remain clear of the UDA., the Liberal union members expressed many and varied reasons for the rejection. The Democratic Action group was founded in 1941 and counts as one of its stalwarts, Reinhold Niebuhr, prominent theologian. The HLU has long been connected with the United States Student Assembly, with which it once more allied Thursday night...
...countrywide organization, led by Reinhold Niebuhr, which has long championed a non-communist liberal approach to American problems. Loeb appeared before the HLU officers to discuss proposed affiliation of the HLU's parent body, the United States Student Assembly, with the UDA. At the next Liberal Union meeting, the Executive Committee will recommend support of the affiliation move...
...learning? The ten-man U.S. education mission to Germany, in a 24,000-word report last week, offered faint praise for what had been accomplished so far, faint hope of an early end to the job. The educators (among them American Council on Education President George Zook, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) found nothing to "encourage the hope of a quick fulfillment of the responsibilities which our nation . . . has assumed...
Referring to Niebuhr's assertion that Germany is overwhelmingly anti-Russian, Friedrich and "it's no fun to be occupied. You hear of horrors from all zones. I met many Germans in the Russian zone who did complain of terrorism but they seemed to have a just appreciation of the other side of it--of the unfortunate actions we're guilty of in our area. The Soviet Union, in addition, has achieved a definite measure of support from quite a few Germans in their zone. That Germans in other zones should be anti-Soviet is natural. The many Red Army...