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"Individuals must be committed to something greater than themselves," Reinhold Niebuhr said in Memorial Church yesterday. Speaking to an overflow crowd, Niebuhr mentioned the German universities of the 30's where students warmly accepted the Nazi philosophy. He warned of the danger today from minds that are barren of values.
These minds, Niebuhr continued, are likely to accept some "devil theory"; under Communism all the problems come from abuses by property-owners, and those without possessions are men of virtue.
Niebuhr criticized the situation in the last war when our soldiers did not know what they were fighting for other than "mother's home cooking."
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