Word: condemns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This, it can be seen, is an exact reversal of the thought in the Union when it refused to condemn the invasion of Finland and approaches the policy of the Student Defense League, although the strong declaration on keeping out of war is a marked difference between...
...Catholics already sense that possibility. The Commonweal, U. S. Catholic liberal weekly, thus touched on it: "The Church obviously cannot choose for States a temporal form of government to support or condemn. . . . An operating secular government, on the other hand, necessarily has a temporal form and organization which makes the structure of other governments of great political importance, since their form will have an effect on itself...
Consistently, A. Y. C. has refused to condemn Communism by name, or purge itself of Communist Party members or the Young Communist League. Its reason: to deny anyone a hearing is contrary to its creed. But a frequent charge against the Congress has been that an articulate and fast-stepping Communist minority has determined A. Y. C. policies, kept them lashed to the Communist Party line. One grown-up who is convinced that A. Y. C. is dominated by the Communists is ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney. In the attempt to get a "pro-American" bloc into the Congress...
Unfortunately the more articulate college students are either Communist-minded or are influenced by Communistically inclined professors. (I don't say this in any Red-baiting sense. I am well aware of the temptation to condemn any liberal movement as Communistic. But this thing is a fact-I once attended a meeting of representatives from all Pacific Coast colleges, for example, where it was solemnly proposed that we should work to dissolve the Boy Scouts as they engendered the militaristic spirit...
...still permitted to call this not idealism blinking at reality, but realistic opinion soundly based on historical fact. When we condemn preparedness as leading straight to war, we are thinking only of 1916 and 1917. When we say war attains none of the ideals to which it pretends, we are thinking only of American intervention once before. Then there were the same ideals and the same fears. In a stunningly brief interval, all that seems to have been forgotten. The "inexorable logic of events" has driven the American people to "gratifying" new realism-a logic and a realism given edifying...