OPINION: Protest

Twenty-eight U.S. clergymen and writers, mostly veteran pacifists who believe that the sins of the Führer should not be visited on his children, protested "obliteration" bombing of German cities. Said they: "Christian people should . . . examine themselves concerning their participation in this carnival of death." The signers included: Pastors Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes; ex-Editor (the Nation) Oswald Garrison Villard.

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