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Famed Japanese publicists Teisuka Akiyama and Seijiro Kawashima detonated into lurid phrase again last week, called upon Japan to declare war on the U. S., rehashed with venom the celebrated "Hanihara incident."† (TIME, April...
...recent book of Henry Cabot Lodge is the fall edition of the Hymn of Hate. It is a futile effort at self-defense-an apology weakly put forth; a retreat without a single handsome feature. No one could expect, from a pen dipped in venom, a fair or impartial appraisement of Woodrow Wilson; especially from one who, where Woodrow Wilson's policies were concerned, was incapable of having a generous thought. It is regrettable, indeed, that at the end of his so distinguished a career a man should have put his great talents to so base...
...Buddha or the Essays of Emerson. . . . Who is the Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling of people with very strong religious convictions. . . . Joshua made the sun stand still. The Fundamentalists will make the ages roll back. . . . This is as brazen and bold an attempt to destroy liberty as was ever seen in the Middle Ages...
...Goldstein defended the Catholic Church, the institution against which, he held, the "venom of the birth preventers largely centers, because she condemns the practice and bars from the sacraments those, who deign to frustrate the natural law of procreation by artificial means." Mr. Goldstein repudiated the notion that the Catholic Church advocates "an avalanche of babies under any circumstances." When the mother's health, the danger of the loss of life, extreme poverty, or any other legitimate reason exists for limiting the birth rate, it is held to be moral for husband and wife by mutual consent to practice continence...
This movement, which has been termed "the mightiest adventure in Christian annals since the Reformation," has not proceeded without venom and recrimination. One report had it: "Families have been disunited, friendships of a lifetime broken...