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...Protestantism's young intellectuals. Its title: The Nature and Destiny of Man: Volume I (Scribner; $2.75). Its significance: that America's most influential theologian is reversing the optimistic and rationalistic trend of Christian liberalism to lead his legions back to an almost medieval emphasis on the basic sinfulness...
...chairman of the American Federation of Peace, which urged Congress either 1) to keep the U. S. out of Europe's wars, or 2) to sterilize all Americans so that their children might not become homicidal monsters. In step with the times, Sterilizer Kaufman had simply transferred his basic idea to the enemy...
...outstanding interest, ability, and general excellence... on the required Naval ROTC cruise..." This medal was presented by Lieutenant Ross Courier, USNR, who awarded another prize from the same society to John Lowell '42, of Winthrop House, as "the Junior having highest scholastic standing for the two years of his basic course...
...Streit can persuade his readers to accept his basic premises, he will have little difficulty in making them agree with him that Union Now is the only solution to the world's problems. Assuming that our entry into the war is inevitable, that the League of Nations idea, by its very nature, can never work, that some form of world government is necessary, Streit concludes that a "United States of Man" must be formed immediately...
Since the publication of his original work, Streit's plan has had to undergo considerable revision, for the proposed number of member democracies has steadily decreased with the advance of Hitler. But the basic elements of the proposal, with equal emphasis on "union" and "now," remain unchanged...