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...Bishop of Cremona which had already been read in every church of the diocese and reprinted in the Vatican's Osservatore Romano. Excerpt: "God punishes peoples by abandoning them to unworthy shepherds or to perverse or inept rulers or by permitting that even the better ones among them commit fatal errors...
...Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British Columbia's round, pink Thomas Dufferin Pattullo...
...struggle. So it was something of a shock that last Thursday the heads of two leading American universities came out with eminently sensible statements that are hard to pick a quarrel with. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, in a radio address, warned that the nation "is about to commit suicide" by joining the European conflict, and that President Roosevelt is sliding dangerously close to active intervention. Harvard's Conant, who is far from agreeing with his colleague on the question of going to war, warned in his annual report to the Board of Overseers that the present crisis presents many...
Apparently he does not understand his duty in making such an extreme request. To justify himself, he has to show how the people may benefit from sending ships there, to show that the act of sending them, to which he asks us to commit ourselves now, will have less serious consequences than not sending them. This is the only fair and frank way of discussing the issue. Instead, Mr. Stimson resorts to a cheap trick of distortion. He calls the proposed ban a "shackle." By this philosophy, the Constitution is a suffocating strait-jacket instead of a charter of freedom...
...fourth is freedom from fear -which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fash ion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-anywhere in the world...