Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Influential in world affairs out of all proportion to their numbers, Quakers, compared to most sects strong in faith, are peculiarly passive. Fanatical flamboyance of word or deed is abhorrent to them. Their informal meetings, where they sit in sombre clothes heeding the mild words of those of their number...
Attached to the U. S. Army, with officers' rank, uniform and pay, are 125 chaplains. (The rest of some 1,600 full and part-time chaplains are with the CCC, National Guard, Reserve Corps.) There are no Jewish army chaplains because there are not enough Jews in the peacetime...
Fortnight ago many Germans hoped that the postponement of the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, defiant Anti-Nazi Protestant pastor (TIME, Aug. 16), forecast the gradual abandonment of the Reich's campaign against all religious groups that run afoul the Nazi ideology.
The four-year-old struggle between Dictator Hitler and the Confessional Synod, Germany's anti-Nazi Protestant Church, has been a clash between ruthlessness and spunky defiance. Last week, however, the Third Reich tried a Confessional leader in a way that would have brought credit to any Government.
The crowd sang La Marseillaise (well), the Star-Spangled Banner (badly). A U. S. Catholic priest pronounced a solemn benediction. He was followed by a rabbi and a Protestant minister. A French military band played the eerie Hymn to the Dead. In his Rooseveltian voice, bald William Bullitt, U. S...