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...Moral Rearmament" is entering a heyday. The personalistic revival movement which started under Frank Buchman as the Oxford Group after the first World War and took hold in the United States most successfully in the late Thirties now bids for big stakes, proclaiming that it offers "the answering ideology to Communism." Last Monday and Tuesday nights' overflow crowds of fashionable gentry at the Colonial Theatre watched Boston's free-of-charge performances of "The Good Road," MRA's touring propaganda spokesman in musical revue guise...
Died. Fred Albert Britten, 74, longtime Republican Representative from Illinois (1913-34), who fought for a big navy and moral rearmament, against prohibition and diplomats; in Bethesda...
...spite of his flapping blue uniform and red scarf with white polka dots, he had shed all his clownishness. He made no attempt to save his neck, again & again gluttonously claimed responsibility: "I am responsible for German rearmament. . . . I always wanted bombers for bombing the U.S. . . . I personally gave the orders to bomb Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry." With furious gusto, he shifted blame from fellow defendants to himself. He spoke with unvarying respect of Adolf Hitler, cried: "I do not propose in any way to hide behind the Führer...
...March 1933 elections. If Hitler won, Göring had assured him amiably, it would be the last election in Germany. (Göring grinned and nodded with pleasure at the recollection, Schacht screwed up his face in disgust.) The record continued: Schacht had untiringly aided Germany's rearmament, had raised millions of marks for the German war machine through inflation...
...criminals, high and low, in both Germany and Japan . . . must be dealt with promptly, justly and relentlessly. Germany and Japan must be completely disarmed . . . and the means of rearmament must be forbidden them. . . ." Dewey drew a careful distinction between the immediate peace with Germany and Japan, and the planning of a long-range peace organization. His conception of a permanent peace organization was squarely in line with the plans submitted to Dumbarton Oaks, but with this difference: "I believe this is a subject which should be talked about widely, earnestly, and publicly. . . . We cannot meet the problems of peace...