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...that human evil is due merely to human ignorance is being conducted by Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr of New York City's Union Theological Seminary. In Vol. I (Human Nature, TIME, March 24, 1941) of his work The Nature and Destiny of Man, Dr. Niebuhr found the roots of sin in pride and self-righteousness. In his second volume, Human Destiny (Scribner; $2.75), Dr. Niebuhr examines past and present interpretations of history...
...Buchmanites were seeking draft deferment on the grounds that their Moral Re-Armament organization (successor to Buchman's sin-&-tell Oxford Group) was necessary to the nation's wartime morale. Prompt to disagree were New York Local Board No. 17 and the district Appeals Board. Yet somehow the Buchman men had managed to find friendlier ears on more exalted heads...
...That is a sin, and we have been guilty of it, and of this sin we must purge ourselves...
Agitators for a return to prohibition got a douse of cold water this week when the Office of War Information released the findings of a survey on drinking in the U.S. armed forces. After gathering information from almost all U.S. camps and ports, from the adjacent "hot spots" and "sin zones," after interviewing commanding officers, provost marshals and chaplains, OWI concluded: 1) there is no excessive drinking among troops; 2) drinking is not a serious problem; 3) no American Army in history has been so well behaved. Some OWI findings...
...subject of peace the Protestants at Cleveland were really able to get together. They were for it as unanimously as they were against sin. Manhattan lawyer John Foster Dulles, head of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just & Durable Peace, declared...