Word: morality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a German Jew who, in order to escape from Germany, had lied about his money to Nazi officials...
From textbook publishers' presses today pours a flood of books designed to teach democracy. Many of these books are less benign toward modern dictatorships than pre-War texts were toward the old European monarchies. Some denounce dictators. But most contemporary history books balance their moral indignation, state the dictatorships' case and let pupils judge for themselves. Sample excerpts...
...render unworkable and, in the last analysis, defenseless. . . . The final resistance to tyranny . . . has been made . . . by devoutly religious churchmen who alone had a conviction which made them say that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. . . . This message contains within it . . . the outline of that reconstruction in their moral philosophy which the democracies must undertake if they are to survive...
Adding a new catch-word to his growing collection, Mr. Lippmann fixed on the President's references to religion as being the casiest to distort. With a skill derived from experience, he took Mr. Roosevelt's concept of devout, pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Cordell Hull last summer put strong moral pressure on manufacturers and exporters in a partially successful attempt to shut off sales of American military planes and serial bombs to Japan, it was revealed today...