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Speaking Sunday night in Emerson D, Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological Seminary, identified the "cultural abyss of the age" as man's failure to recognize his basic weakness, insecurity...
...editorial board of Christianity and Crisis, a bi-weekly journal which Reinhold Niebuhr started in 1941 to fight pacifist religious views, came to much the same conclusions: the war might be shortened "if we were to state the conditions of peace, however harsh, in clear terms and thus . . . prevent the militarists from using the fear of annihilation as their final resource of power over the nation...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, professor, Union Theological Seminary...
...weeks in Great Britain had given Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr that high-low opinion of the British and U.S. Army education systems. In last week's Nation he cited chapter and verse, was at his caustic best on the subject of the U.S. Army daily paper Stars & Stripes: It "not only carries baseball box scores but has a daily photo of some glamor queen, usually a Hollywood star . . . presumably for the purpose of providing 'pin-ups.' ... In short, nothing is lacking . . . except serious discussion about the meaning of the war and the best means...
...Warned Niebuhr: "The American soldier . . . lacks help in finding the spiritual and moral significance of the titanic struggle in which he is engaged. We may one day rue this neglect...