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...Perfectly hopeless" was the answer of the Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the theology expressed in the recent speech here of Dr. John Reach Straton. "If religion must fight science in order to exist, then religion is dead. The modern theologian accepts the decisions of the expert getting the best help he can from the scientist. We make theology as we go along, because we do not want to have any dogmatism...
...Honduran incident, which excited much comment owing to the previous American occupation of Haiti, was caused by the fighting in Tegucigalpa when General Juan Angelo Arias and General Francisco Bueso- who seized dictatorial powers on the death of former President Rafael Lopez Gutierrez-were driven from the capital by rebels led by Generals Tiburcio Carias and Gregorio Ferrera...
...Albania, and Italy and Greece have all been satisfactorily settled," he declared, "and war, which threatened in each case, has been averted. I have never seen a time so intense, a time so difficult to resist hysteria, as when the Corfu question was being discussed. There has been much comment in regard to the inability of the League to handle this dispute, but I have never heard an intelligent person say that the world would have been better if the League had not existed at that time. This quarrel may be likened to that between Serbia and Austria...
...ridiculous for men to sign pledges like that" was his comment on the report of the method by which pacifism was being spread," and I don't believe those men realized what they were doing. It would be absolutely impossible for them to keep such a pledge in the event our country went to war. If they refuse to fight for conscientious reasons, then they will be put to digging graves, or some other important activity behind the lines...
...They are novelties," said Dr. John Roach Straton when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the teachings of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, prominent New York Modernist clergymen. "They appeal to curiosity and to vanity. They tell their congregations that everything is all right. Instead of rebuking sin, they soft-soap. What is the use of a preacher if everything is all right...