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Last week TIME'S London Bureau cabled: "Britons are asking about and talking about war in a dreadfully matter-of-fact way-two years, five years, what will you bet?" On the Continent the schism between Russia and the West was forcing the great mass of moderate men into two opposing camps, with the extremists in both getting ready for "when war comes." As Jimmy Byrnes and Arthur Vandenberg spoke of a stronger U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), war talk was also heard...
This prayer for a united Christendom was repeated last week by Pope Pius XII. With the same prayer the Council of Trent in 1563 had closed its 18-year deliberations to combat the schism born of Martin Luther's theses nailed to the church door at Wittenberg. The Council failed to bring Protestant heretics back to the fold...
Russia. "The impression I brought back from the Crimea is that Marshal Stalin and the other Soviet leaders wish to live in honorable friendship and democracy with the western democracies. . . . Terrible indeed would be the fortunes of mankind if some awful schism arose between the western democracies and the Russian people...
...great Protestant "doctrine of private judgment," vital to the freedom of the individual Christian, often turned into personal despotism and religious schism, until, as a Vermont farmer said, "each generation grew wiser and weaker...
...Moscow that the Nazis are using Russian Orthodox prelates in Occupied Russia, that the clerics set up an autonomous church, have expressed "admiration" for Adolf Hitler's "heroic struggle," pray "to the All Highest to bless Axis arms with victory." In unoccupied Russia the loyal church denounced the schism, promised expulsion of the renegades...