Word: schroeders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. The Rev. John C. Schroeder, 57, leading Congregational churchman, organizer (in 1946) and first chairman of Yale's department of religion, teacher in the Divinity School, author of articles and books (The Task of Religion, Modern Man and the Cross) which emphasized the social importance of religion; after a long illness; in New Haven, Conn. A critic of religious orthodoxy for its own sake, Dr. Schroeder believed that in their scramble for faith and religious security, postwar Americans had sacrificed the "moral naiveté" which had made his own generation "mount ethical horses and ride off rapidly...
...American authorities in Berlin sent an officer of the U.S. Military Mission in the Soviet zone to the Schroeder house to check on the long-overdue Grimeses. "That," said Grimes, "just about cooked our goose. WTe knew it was time to leave...
Twice, the Grimeses went to Germany to get the children, but Mrs. Grimes's father, an oldtime Communist and smalltown Red official named Paul Schroeder, would not surrender the girls to "capitalist America." "The future belongs to Communism," insisted Schroeder. "Why don't you stay here...
...Grimes quit his job, got a Communist visa for ten days, registered with the U.S. consulate in Berlin, then went with Irmgard to the Schroeder home in Nassenheide, 25 miles north of Berlin. Evelyn, 11, and Monica, 14, knew only two American phrases-"Nuts" and a clumsy version of "You aggravate me"-and many terrible tales about America. Said Mrs. Grimes: "I was heartsick about Monica's books; containing nothing but lies about...
...Grimeses waged a slow campaign of love to win the two children. Schroeder fought back bitterly but silently; he was afraid to report the couple to the police because he had vouched for them. The ten days stretched into months, the visas expired, but the Grimeses stayed on and fought. "We had brought American film magazines along with us to show the children," said Grimes. "Monica became a fan of Gregory Peck and Tony Curtis. We told her she could see their films in America and that just about won the battle...