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Bigger nations than Switzerland have been consumed by Nazi fury for fewer sins. Switzerland is democratic; she is "polyglot"; her largest racial group is German. Her culture is incurably liberal and her biggest political party is Social Democratic. She is home and symbol of the world's greatest experiments in the internationalism which the Nazis detest: the League of Nations and the Red Cross. Now, with war in the Mediterranean, Switzerland has automatically become guilty of the cardinal sin: being in Hitler...
...sharp-tongued Irishman who never minces his words, the Cardinal has positive dislikes-among them, Protestantism ("the Protestant Church here and elsewhere is no part of the Church which Christ founded") and modern civilization (which "increases the opportunity for sin...
...Morals found expression in songs of fallen virtue (The Picture That Is Turned Toward the Wall) and tippling ("When you stumbled and fell in the hallway, I knew you'd been drinking again"). But with the turn of the century music publishers drew the line at ballads about sin. When Lyricist Arthur J. Lamb submitted A Bird in a Gilded Cage in 1900, Louis Bernstein refused to take it until the bird was changed from a kept woman into an old man's wife...
Germans with a few marks to spend trudged to their cinemas last week to get their first official Nazi-eye view of what Americans are like. They saw a bloodcurdling, Grade-B thriller, showing Americans glorying in sin, sadism and corruption. The picture's title: Vom Winde Verweht (Gone With the Wind...
...have no alternative as a nation but to engage in this war." Nevertheless, Presbyterians are still officially committed to "pray for and work for a righteous victory." The Presbyterians acknowledged that the U.S. was not entirely guiltless ("Our own hands are not clean, nor our own hearts without sin"), called on the U.S. to abandon isolationism forever and accept "her rightful share of the responsibility for building a world order," and declared that "our nation must be prepared . . . even at heavy sacrifice ... to enter a world society whose goal is a sovereign good which transcends national sovereignty...