Word: morals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring addressed the nation on the subject of Moral Rearmament. He approved it. This surprised only those who think of the Secretary of War as a warlike character. Mr. Woodring is in fact a gentle character who asks only to be left at peace in his job. Said he last week in a speech over a coast-to-coast radio network: "Nations, like men, are their own worst enemies. The menacing might of human selfishness in every country is mankind's chief danger. It is because the war to end selfishness...
These sentiments did credit to Dr. Frank Buchman, who first interested Mr. Woodring (and many another Washington politico) in moral reformation last spring. But, said Harry Woodring after he had finished his speech: "I'm really not a Buchmanite. I think Moral Rearmament is a great, tremendous influence for good, and it ought to be encouraged. I'm very strong for it. But I'm not a convert." Uplifted by a pile of commendatory messages and cablegrams from as far off as Ireland, Mr. Woodring then went back to his business of rearming the U. S. Army...
...translated into fact during this war by the SS. Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside of wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become-not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...
...Secondly, the election of Cardinal Pacelli as Pius XII convinced me that there is only one moral authority left in the world and that is the Papacy...