Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roots of Conflict. Then came World War I. Britain, with her back to the wall, acted to safeguard the Middle East, its highway of Empire, and to strike at Germany through Turkey. It promised Arab leaders independence from the Turks and self-government through most (the Arabs now say all) of the Middle East. At the same time Britain sought to rouse world Jewry (including German Jews) to support the Allied cause and weaken Germany. In his famous Declaration, Foreign Secretary Arthur (later Lord) Balfour informed Lord Rothschild, the prominent British Zionist, that "His Majesty's Government view with...
Purposes of the meeting, as outlined by the Student Activities Committee of the AVC, headed by Robert Koehl '44, are first, to establish all the facts concerning the rising cost of education for veterans and non-veterans, and second, to initiate discussion on how veterans may safeguard their right to an education...
This week's issue of the Methodist Zions Herald applauded: "The FCC has done a profound service to freedom of religion. . . . One of the basic rights that must not be disturbed is the right to achieve for oneself a satisfactory conception of God. To safeguard that right, the church must recognize and defend the right of an individual to disbelieve either in partner completely...
Vatican and other European clerics had also frowned deeply at the U.S. principle of separation of Church and State, which had been condemned by Leo XIII. But U.S. Catholics, uneasily aware that they were a minority, were early convinced that such a separation was their own strongest safeguard. Though Leo's views are still repeated by a few academic theologians, they are largely ignored by the U.S. hierarchy...
Catholic Layman Alfred E. Smith could flatly endorse "equality of all Churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of Church and State." Even those who safeguard their orthodoxy most carefully need not believe that Church and State, though their union be a Christian ideal sub specie aeternitatis, can be prudently wed until the final earthly triumph of the City of God-which may perhaps arrive just before Judgment...