The plan to exhume hundreds of thousands of American war dead from foreign fields for reburial in the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 17) has met no evident opposition. Last week a challenge came.
At St. George's Episcopal Church on Manhattan's East Side, the Rev. Elmore M. McKee assailed the plan as "an example of organized paganism. . . . These men died not for things material but for indestructible values of the spirit. . . . We cannot afford to get bogged down by a misguided, obsolete and patriarchal patriotism which demands American soil for American bodies. Let the dead rather...
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