Religion: The World We Want

A new high in religious interventionism was set last week by the fourth biennial Williamstown Conference,* which drew 850 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders to Williamstown, Mass. last week to discuss "The World We Want to Live In." No votes were taken, but anti-Hitler sentiment ran so strong (particularly among the Jewish delegates) that a ballot might have revealed an actual majority for a shooting war now.

"The first concern of all," said Jewish Co-Chairman Roger W. Straus in summing up the conference, "was that totalitarianism be crushed." Catholic Co-Chairman Carlton J....

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