Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself. Last week they combined both interests in a telling blast against U.S. military authorities who had just destroyed Japan's cyclotrons. They put the destruction in a class with the German burning of the Louvain Library in 1914 and 1940 as a "wanton and stupid . . . crime against mankind. . . . Men who cannot distinguish between the usefulness of a research machine and the military importance of a 16-in. gun have no place in positions of authority...
...really Civilization, but just a powerful, angry American, name of Robert Jackson, of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
...actions. Said he: "[The defendants] are living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power. . . . Must such wrongs either be ignored or redressed in hot blood? . .. [The defendants hope] that international law will lag so far behind the moral sense of mankind that conduct which is a crime in the moral sense must be regarded as innocent...
...Peace. The statement, drafted by Commission Chairman Dr. John Foster Dulles and polished by members at a two-day session in Philadelphia, summarizes the Commission's postwar program. Entitled "Christian Action on Four Fronts for Peace," its sound, pious exhortations included these highlights: ^ "We have what may be mankind's last chance. With the development of atomic power . . . the prevention of war is now the issue which transcends all other social and political issues."
Author Jenney gives all credit for her 124-page collaboration to Poet Shelley, who has also supplied the foreword ("Whenever I have tried to compass the thought of mankind as possessing relevance to the eternal spheres, it has become clearly evident to me that the Earthman was choiring his way. . . . The prisms of chance do not allow too great an opportunity for merit or renown; they revoke the essential, and persuade mankind into linear aspects such as the ulterior powers descry for illusive dedications."). More surprising is a second foreword by William Ewart Gladstone, disembodied but still magisterial...