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...Question of Power. Perhaps the most decisive answers came from thinkers who questioned the very reality of world opinion that the U.S. has sought to court. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr says: "World opinion doesn't really exist." So also argues University of Chicago Political Scientist Hans (Politics Among Nations) Morgenthau (TIME, July 7). To Morgenthau, the U.S. has too long tended to consider foreign policy as a public-relations gimmick, forgetting that policy is a question of power. "This world opinion we pay so much attention to is largely a myth," he says. "It is true that there...
...M.R.A. technique for fighting the Reds is still that of changing the world by a "God-guided" elite-a program that has little endorsement these days from the clergy. Reinhold Niebuhr has called the movement "socially vicious" and "religiously vapid," and six years ago the Church of England's Social and Industrial Council condemned M.R.A.'s "hectic heartiness, its mass gaiety, and its reiterated slogans as a colossal drive of escapism from . . . responsible living." The movement has been repeatedly attacked by Roman Catholic leaders as a kind of fake religion...
...Chambers also joined TIME as a book reviewer, rose steadily to the post of senior editor, directed the foreign news and books sections, and wrote numerous cover stories on divergent personalities ranging from Marian Anderson to Reinhold Niebuhr to Albert Einstein. A man who loved self-dramatization, Chambers attracted a group of fiercely loyal friends with his nonconformist personality, his brilliant-though often high-flown-writing style, the surprising spread of his scholarship, and, more important, his apocalyptic view of the world, which saw all mankind as threatened by moral decay...
...Ursula Niebuhr, wife of Reinhold Niebuhr, will join the Institute staff as a Research Fellow. She plans to study some traditional respects of religion from the viewpoint of ego psychology...
...courses to be given next Government 110, "Communism Democracy," which will be taught the Spring by Reinhold Niebuhr emeritus at Union Seminary, is perhaps the most...