Religion: For Tolerance

"How Far Must We Tolerate Intolerance?" demanded Rev. Wilbur Larremore Caswell last week in the liberal Episcopal Churchman. Mr. Caswell thus stated a dilemma which bothers many a religious liberal. It was posed for him last month by a Nazi Bund rally on Washington's Birthday in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. That rally loudly cheered Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally...

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