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...Americans were John Raleigh Mott, 81, and Emily Greene Balch, 79; the German was Hermann Hesse, 69, who became a naturalized Swiss...
...chosen as one of three American awarded Nobel Prized this year. The other two were Emily Greene Balch and Dr. John R. Mott, who shared the Peace prize...
Many a thoughtful Protestant will agree with John Raleigh Mott, octogenarian Y.M.C.A. leader, that "entirely too many resolutions are being passed by churches [and] denominational bodies." The grand old man of foreign missions is quoted in the Protestant Voice: "This is a colossal escape mechanism. I have on file now 115 sets of elaborate resolutions. Certain bodies meet, deliberate, announce that they have come to such-and-such a conclusion, then they sit back on their oars and do nothing more. What we need is enlightened, imaginative and even revolutionary leadership in religion today...
Last week, the Executive Committee of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America produced a new candidate for Dr. Mott's file by approving a statement prepared by its Commission on a Just and Durable 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...
...plot is hackneyed and almost traditional: Poor boy wants to see Mother living more comfortably, sinks into life of crime to achieve his end. There is a certain degree of force in Grant's portrayed of Ernle Mott if you region him a figure symbolic of all the underprivileged, an embattled young man of his century moved by vast influences he can understand only in terms of privation. Unfortunately, it is too much a matter of imagination. "None but the Lonely Heart" gives an overwhelming impression of confusion...