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...struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world obscures the moral issues involved in the struggle and creates a vicious circle of mutual fear, from which there is no easy escape. We do not suggest that there is some simple pacifist solution for these mutual fears, created by power contests...
...president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World War I he became an ardent pacifist, was booed and hissed by patriotic gatherings whenever he spoke. Embarrassed U.S. Jews denounced him as disloyal...
Divided Labors. In a room near his office, from which he can look out over the plains of Jordan to the Dead Sea, Judah Magnes has placed two great filing cabinets, one marked "University Affairs," the other "Political Affairs." They are a sign of his divided labors. Still a pacifist and a longtime advocate of a joint Jewish and Arab Palestine, he has been attacked by extremists of both sides. Once his students went out on strike in protest against him; once Arabs set upon a car bearing two of his guests and killed the driver. But he has never...
...apply Christian principles to the whole area of current events. The Century, at various times, campaigned for the League of Nations, for prohibition, for NRA, for the rights of labor. Sometimes it campaigned itself into positions that many readers thought untenable (e.g., attempting to be both crusading and pacifist in support of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Century naively hoped that a pact to "outlaw" war could, in fact, outlaw it). But the Century's alertness, firmly backed by the principles of evangelical Christianity, never degenerated into sterile intellectualism; and whatever side it took, the Century always came...
...monthly Christian Register since 1943, held one of the key jobs in the tiny Unitarian hierarchy. He also held membership in a list of alleged Party-line organizations as long as his left arm; he contributed to the Communist weekly New Masses and was a sponsor of the pseudo-pacifist, Communist-front "Yanks Are Not Coming Committee." Then, when Russia was attacked, he turned into what he called "a fighting liberal." After the war, as U.S.Soviet friendship cooled, some Unitarians thought that the Christian Register was flying on Moscow's beam...