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There was no doubt that Democratic professionals would be very happy if Justice Douglas assented. He had the right specifications: he is a Protestant and geographically correct (home state: Washington); most important, he would carry New Dealish weight in the big cities of the East and Midwest.
Commenting on the campaign, the aggressively Protestant Christian Century editorialized this week: "The Knights of Columbus are to be applauded for having 'hired a hall' in the advertising columns and there submitting the claims of their church to the test of the open forum. If Protestantism is wise, it will hasten to subject its faith to the same scrutiny...
Booth left the Methodist ministry because the ragtag-&-bobtail following he drew with his fiery street-corner sermons shocked his respectable brethren. Now the Army considers itself a religious body much like any other Protestant denomination, with an accent on works and service. But the old-fashioned blue-and-red...
Italy and France this winter, ably explained the situation: "Comrades, you must learn to criticize more and be criticized more. ... I confess that we committed a sin of naivete." The sin was that the Italian Communist Party had Sacrificed effectiveness for size. It was the world's largest outside...
In a meticulous "manifesto" the new group warned the U.S. against a certain "powerful church" which "has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution." But, announced the group carefully: "As Protestants we can be called...