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Show THE AMERICAN WAYl pSll FANATICAL IJv EISENHOWER f Wv Jl,.,. UMJ Please don't let the. title mislead mis-lead you. This article is not a censure of General Eisenhower. On the contrary, if you will read on, you will find it a paean of the highest praise. On December 3, 1946, the CHURCHMAN magazine made its Eighth Annual Award by presenting a bronze plaque to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, for his promotion of good will and better understanding among all people. The General richly deserved this recognition. The CHURCHMAN Cud well In making mak-ing this award to the Chief of Staff of Uncle Sam's Army. It has been charged in some quarters that the CHURCHMAN is rather leftish in its editorial policy others allege that it leans far over to the left. General Ike, however, in his speech accepting the plaque, left no doubt as to how he stands on sound Americanism. Ameri-canism. In fact, his remarks would indicate that he was well aware of the leftish accusations leveled at the CHURCHMAN, and deliberately went "all out" I to dispel any suspicion he was tarred with any "pinkish" brush. The General described himself as a fanatic, "a fanatical devotee of the American system of democracy." de-mocracy." He said he believed there were two fundamental bases bas-es of this system: (1) A deep and abiding religious faith, and (2) that it is a system of freedom, of rights and liberties of the individual, in-dividual, described as free enterprise. Without these two fundamentals, fundamen-tals, he declared there could be no democracy. Then he voiced his conviction that no individual, including even himself, can be trusted with absolute power, by stating: "I am certain that if you entrust all your affairs and your property and your liberties to a bureaucrat in Washington,, SUCH AS I AM, you would not have democracy as we know it now." There may still be some doubt about the sound Americanism Ameri-canism of the churchman, but General Eisenhower has left none regarding his. It was also most refreshing to learn that our greatest General named "a deep and abiding religious re-ligious faith" as the first of two bases of our American Way. It was especially timely because all top many ministers of the GospeK have been bitten by the "socialist bug." This statement of General Ike's should cause all such seriously to consider a return re-turn to preaching religious faith as the one and only thing that can regenerate mankind. By way of contrast, let me quote Karl Marx, the arch apostle apos-tle of communism: "The demo-cratic demo-cratic concept of man is false because it is Christian. The democratic dem-ocratic concept holds that . . . each man has a value as a sovereign sov-ereign being. This is the illusion, dream and postulate of Christianity, Christian-ity, that man has a sovereign soul." iAnd then as a futher warning to our "Men of the Cloth,'' who seemingly have given giv-en on God as the savior of mankind, man-kind, please read what Earl Browder, our leading American-born American-born disciple of Marx, has to say. Browder brazenly boasts of how his communist party has invaded in-vaded church groups in America. Writes Browder: "It is significant that the communist com-munist party, more than any other group, has been able to achieve successful united fronts with church groups on the most important issues of the day. This is not due to any compromise on our part with religion as such. IN GOING AMONG THE RELIGIOUS RE-LIGIOUS MASSES WE ARE FOR THE FIRST TIME ABLE TO BRING OUR ANTI-RELIGIOUS IDEAS TO THEM." Earl Browder announces that his atheistic party has brought its anti-religious ideas to church groups, in an effort to destroy "the deep and abiding religious faith," which General Eisenhower Eisenhow-er states is one of the two bases of the American system of democracy. de-mocracy. Need any more be said? |