Word: protestantitis
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¶ The Protestant Churches (see below). Not only did their spokesmen in Cleveland swallow Dumbarton Oaks with all its flaws, but in their appended criticisms they never once questioned the all-out use of force in maintaining the peace.
The Protestant churchmen at Cleveland (see col. 3) made a tremendous concession when they waived their moral and practical doubts of Dumbarton Oaks.
This bow to an imperfect world came only after intense and elevated debate between those who preferred a faulty beginning to none at all, and those who felt that the Protestant churches of the U.S. would fail in their duty if they compromised with the crude expediency of power politics...
5) Point against Churchill. On one of the touchiest long-range points, the conference sided squarely against Imperialist Churchill. No single nation or empire, said the Protestant leaders, should be left solely responsible for the progress of its colonies or other dependencies toward full autonomy (the conferees did not say...
U.S. Protestant churches think that funerals cost too much, but they have tried only half-heartedly to get funeral prices down. The Federal Council of Churches, feeling that the time had come for action, made a survey, came up with a flat charge: many an undertaker, cemetery and tombstone maker...