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Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...
...defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ... so help me God." The history of World War II is filled with the names of men who died in fulfillment of that solemn oath...
...that is not the only reason she is sometimes dubious about man's future. Like many another scientist (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), she is shocked by the horrors of a war in which scientific brains were deciding factors. In September's Scientific Monthly, Dr. Weltfish proposed a professional oath for all scientists, like the Hippocratic Oath which physicians honor...
Midwives in Latin America now have their own version of the famed Hippocratic oath. As part of the cooperative health campaign of the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries, midwives are required to vow: "I swear in the name of God and my own conscience that I will never practice abortions . . . that I will always make use of the umbilical sterile dressing and of silver nitrate solution at one percent...
Mohandas K. Gandhi introduced a new marital oath at the wedding of two friends, urged it on all his followers: no begetting of offspring till India wins freedom...