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...Americans want U.S. participation in the war discussed from the pulpit? No say 55%, yes say 34%, with 11% undecided, the Gallup Poll reported last week. Church members (36%) are more inclined to favor war talk in the pulpit than non-members (25%) and Protestants (37%) are "slightly more in favor of open discussion" than Catholics...
...primary reason" advanced by those who don't want war discussed in church, reported Pollster George Horace Gallup, "is that the church is a place for 'spiritual escape,' a place for 'peace and comfort' away from the storms of life, and not a place for controversy...
Results of two other Gallup religious polls released last week...
...public temper could be judged by a Gallup poll, taken before the coal-mine dispute. Even before John Lewis staged his Ajax-defying-the-lightning act, 73% of voters agreed that the Government should forbid strikes in defense industries. Report of a survey taken among union members themselves should have given Labor Leader Lewis pause. Workers voted 56% in favor of forbidding defense strikes; only 39% were opposed; 5% undecided...
...that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...