What the returning soldiers think or fail to think about religion will determine to a large extent the human and social climate of the postwar world. That is why many people snatch so eagerly at the notion that "there are no atheists in the foxholes." But recently two authoritative realists, Dr. Daniel A. Poling, World's Christian Endeavor Union president, and Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, stated flatly (TIME, Jan. 3; Jan. 31) that soldiers are scarcely thinking about religion at all. Last week a Jesuit chaplain (whose name was with held) corroborated their report.
Wrote the chaplain: "If you read the Catholic press...
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