U.S. At War: Whose Yea is Yea . . .

In 1940 the Christian Century came out against President Roosevelt. Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, quiet, bespectacled editor of this liberal Protestant weekly, wrote that the basic issue was Term III. Last week, the Christian Century came out for Tom Dewey, again seeing one basic issue. The issue, said the Century, is the "comparative moral stature of the two candidates."

Said the Century: "We regard this issue as the one which undercuts all political issues, because it concerns the moral health of the nation. . . . The spirit of cynicism is undermining the moral foundations of our democracy. And we have suggested...