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...first-rate national meaning. . . . Sometimes plays are more potent than statesmen. . . . This play, depicting the tragedy of Finland, seemed to me a rank, inflammatory job, pleading for intervention, sneering at our reluctance to go in. America, still hesitant to plunge into the burning ruins of Europe, was compared to Pontius Pilate, callous and cowardly, evading a responsibility. ... It played to capacity audiences, which are traditionally undemonstrative here [Washington], and sent them away moist-eyed. Most . . . were swept off their feet...
...audience of Oxford undergraduates, in a dim lecture hall which, not long before, had resounded with pacifist slogans, Britain's Foreign Secretary expounded last week the novel doctrine that this war is one "between youth and youth." Assuming the role of Pontius Pilate for his generation, Lord Halifax squarely lays the responsibility for the Second World War at the door of German youth, whom he condemns in one and the same breath as "materialistic" and "prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed...
...JAMES W. PONTIUS Scotia...
...Pontius Pilate-Neville Chamberlain...
...grave, so terrible, so painful, so sad in its deep effects. . . . People say the Catholic religion is no longer the Catholic religion, but is politics, and this pretext is taken to justify a persecution. . . . This is the same accusation made against Jesus Christ when he was dragged before Pontius Pilate. . . . We can reply as Jesus Christ did . . . Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo [My kingdom is not of this world]. We are not in politics. We live and work not for politics but to render testimony to the truth and teach the truth-truth that the world appreciates...