THE COMING DAY

...Something ought to be done with it, but I don't know what—and besides, the plane ia leaving for Guatemala...

...We, for our part, occasionally have something to tay about what goes on In England or France...

...This defense of cultural and religious pluralism Albright linked with an attack on Professor John Dewey and his followers, who were accused of religious intolerance and of seeking to "consolidate the power" achieved by them as educators: they want "power at any price...

...We must revive an ethical faith, supported hy philosophy and religion...

...Since group pride is blind, education can affect it only partially...

...I moat said that aeam) ef my bsat friend* are white, and I am not advocating a racial laseinllan...

...In the meantime, thia crude outburst may 'Id a lesson for Americans...

...energetic minorities am an invaluable stimulus to the majority, pricking it into action...

...A writer here or anywhere haa a right to speek out about thing* which are ef general interest...

...We vent out there right after lunch every day, playing catch to gat warm in the sun, and then diving into the water, just barely eooL hat green and refreshing...

...There ia something kingly in their way of taking the irrational limitations put upon them by a race that dragged them over her* to form a problem against their will...

...According to Havighurst, education for intergroup cooperation should have aa one of ita aims "to reduce greed and hatred In human beings...

...the normal way of entering into God's fellowship is "through the sacraments instituted by Christ for that purpose...

...To restore man to Hia friendship, God sent His Son into thia world...

...These men, said Albright, seek to suppress differences and replace the complex of American democracy with an amorphous mass, thereby reducing the national ethos to a lower level...

...British editors have, now and then, cxpreeeed opinions about our politics...

...The Russian* are greet fighters, bjt their political system is utterly alien to us...

...The appeal should be to enlightened self-interest and to the moral-leligious consciousness...

...The world needs a Guide for tht Perplexed...

...1 HAVE always thought that Negroes of n gtvee cutters* level aaa more gaateal than •kites on the) aam* level—finer ia their perceptions and mere subtle in their social behavior...

...For the dictator ef a country which never haa any elections to interfere in our political campaign to the height of presumption...

...a third is human weakneaa (pride, ambition, self-seeking vanity...

...minorities are the touchstones of democracy...

...To Professor Nelson it appears that the real sources of racial antagonism in America "are clearly amenable to the moral will...

...pi ogress and reform spring from minority groups...

...But in Russia all papers are official...

...The situation created is intolerable...

...immediately picked up the Moscow attack on Mr...

...twa ** pretending, a made-over farmhouse...

...We know that all Bosnian publications represent the government of Dictator Stalin...

...The Soviet method, of eeurae, would be to subject them te a purge...

...organised minorities am a powerful belaacov wheel in society <the Catholic Center Party "played a moat important tole in keeping the (German] Republic on an even keel...

...I da thank that human nature would bo mare agreeable if everybody belonged to the oppressed clauses, ant I have not yet figured out how to make thia include the appro* nr...

...The solution to the problem of human conflicts or group tensions lies, then, in "the unity of all men in Christ," which means Christian Charity or the law of lot e. Professor Gurian called for adherence to "the Christian idea of a total order," the "Corpus Christi mystiiiiin '' Without this belief in a total order, he »aid, science and social engineering cannot solve our problems...

...This framework must be scrapped snd s new culture crested, manifesting the operations of "that supreme form of energy" called "all transcending love...

...There is no point, they maintain, in efiminating differences...

...All thia, he said, points to original sin, which deprives man of the friendship of God...

...The approach taken hy Professors A. Campbell Gar-nett, of the University of Wisconsin, and William Stuart Nelson, of Howard, while not Catholic, was definitely leligious...

...I have eadaaecb, but nobody would take aa borne, and it seemed tgae ** eftra chicken had been discovered It gradually In— > atural for us to stay, and wo came away with an ioviutiea to aaa their guest house and swimming seat aa often M we wished to through the week...

...Waldemar Gurian, of Notre) Dame, were frankly Catholic in their approach te the problem of group tensions...

...But in Negroes the phenomenon is so marked that I think of it aa biological...

...All prescribed panaceas for group difficulties, he said, are doomed to failure ao long as they must be made to work within the contemporary sociocultural framework...

...In an article published in War and tke Working^ Uit„, Nina Sergeyeva wield* a Communist bludgeon against Thomas E. Dewey snd the Republican Party...

...President Roosevelt's eneir...

...No masochism, no cultivation of woe, no I excited oscillation between pride end appeasement...

...Alters called for a return to a "more 'humanistic' curriculum...

...and which, above all, will free us from the eagerness to find reasons for the hostility to our neighbors, and to discover some reasons to justify the hostility, once we feel it...

...We think h* represents a conservative policy which would be bad for this country...

...Eliena remark* that the whole sane ef the Near* problem differs from that of the Jewish, aad adds: "The Negroes took the New Testament, the Jew* etend by the Old...

...Since only sanety persons attended the Conference (admission is by invitation only), and since the Proceedings, when published, will not become a best-seller, I think it will he in the public interest to summarize briefly the contents of the papers presented...

...which will free our minds from the primitive tendencies to fear and to suspect the unknown and the stranger...

...I naesbeealy the best of thorn would blast away* the wheat at Hanoi structure of attitude* if they could, bat they do not tet it ****** tfetir pets* .7%* W rkWbeir stride...

...Something ef this kind ia true of aU oppressed classea, superior social status being a bad thing, usually, for human character...

...Sorokin'a psper was extremely pessimistic...

...The former found the motives of group tension to be rooted in group piide...

...The New Leader ia, of course, opposed to eandidt* Thomas E. Dewey...

...a resolution adopted unanimously by the conferees states that it is the responsibility of men who have the advantages of special training and education "to seek out the roots of the human problems, and te call men to deal with basic rather than superficial issues . . . t» discover the real, rather than the apparent, difficulties which men face in their struggle for peace and happiness...

...but this curriculum must be correlated with, and to some extent subordinated to, a moral education...

...For cultural and religious minorities tend to be' more productive in proportion to numbers than the majorities among whom they live...

...For the problem of social discrimination and group prejudice is "ultimately" a problem of moral*, rather titan one of the intellect or the emotions...

...These quiet-mannered, brightly brown-eyed folk who slip through to the rear seats have a natural dignity, a* well aa a aatin akin, that their paler, hairier, and for the most part fatter, oppressors might envy...

...If the many distinguished conservatives stigmatized in this article were aa bad aa they are painted, they should be taken out and shot...

...an educational system which will teach "faith in the eternal inatead of the delusory belief in 'progress...

...From the political intolerance of a l^igaide to the religious intolerance of a [John] Dewey is an even shoiter step than from the religious liberalism of a Ijiganle to the political liberalism of a (John) Dewey...

...If Moscow hope* for the creek* dent's re-election let it observe a rule of strict silenen from now on...

...THE COMING DAY A Monthly Column by Milton R. Konvitz The Problem of Group tensions {(AVE read the two score papers delivered on Sep-asnsber 10 at the session on group tensions ronducted |a> the fifth Conference on Science, Philosophy and aMarion at the Columbia Faculty Club...

...but the appeal to enlightened self interest alone is inadequate...

...Bit we resent the interference of official Russian new* papers in thia campaign...

...It ia • clear demonsti: t...

...Malice and ignorance are two ef the causes of tensions...

...n of the crude way, of the lying, abusive, undisci m n.-.tlng way of doing things that is characteristic ef die .ator-ships...

...It ceases, the geohydrologist* assert, fase* she naountaine ef Tennessee, and I have the will me...

...The moral problem is the basic problem, and moral education ia the basic educational approach...

...but this idea of justice must possess some absolute character...

...GERALD B PHELAN, of the Pontifical Institute ef Mediaeval Studies, and Prof...

...the Catholic circle represented by the Com won e-eof ia "in many waya the meat enlightened and the beat balanced religtoue group In America...

...in America...

...One of those irradiant opera* of idea tkat Eliena throw* out from tim* to time...

...end the U.S...

...The ¦intellectual level of the argument i* Indicated by the blanketing of the Republican Party and the) National Association of Manufacturers aa pro-fascist in their tendencies and connection...

...The whole performance is s stupid revelation of bow they do things in Russis...

...Professor william f. albright, of Johns Hopkins, believes America's future success aa a democracy depends less on its constitutional tradition than on its "continued protection and encouragement of minorities...

...ft ia to be hoped, he said, that socialism and nationalism can lie replaced "by a group consciousness which permits each group not only to accept other groups, but to regard its relations as determined by an objective order...

...This Christian total order "gives an objective basis for all group relations and permits a free interplay between various groupa...

...11 is relevant to ask, therefore, what the conferees consider the basic issues, the real difficulties in group relations, Aaa group, the persons who participated in the conference agreed unanimously that the fundamental source ef trouble lies in the absence of a sense of fellowship...

...Deweyt as a political weapon...

...Such an education has been rendered practically impossible by the "relativists and historistie mentality...

...Traveling back ia e bu* from Covington, thia cam* te aaa more strongly than ever...

...Religious people, he said, have on the whole defaulted in the presence of their clear moral responsibility and exceptional opportunity: "not a single Protestant church below the Mason and Dixon line is known to have members of both races...

...For group tensions is a subject that one ought to discuss pn every occasion that presents itself: the peace and welfare of our eountry depend on the solution to this problem...

...In subsequent issues of this column we will summer-ize other papers read at the conference and discuss some of the imues raised...

...Professors pitrim a sorokin, of Harvard, Rudolf Alters, of the Catholic University, and Robert J. Havighurst, of the University of Chicago, looked for a solution in the realm of morals, without making an overt appeal to the religious consciousness...

...but the sig-niflcance attributed to the differences lesds to acts of discrimination...

...What with Tennessee's water and Loui-aeaaw'a .amellias and pine fragrance and gracious oaiplo "faring <*a their hospitality, we left Covington tm ear flight te Guatemala almost with regret...

...was never more strikingly demonstrated than in Moscow's eflort to intervene in American politics...

...aVB you hafea ti» do fs sink a abaft anywhere in this roast* **¦ a clear stream of water will spout up leas your face...

...Our "idolatry of science" haa resulted in a relativistic or subjectivistie form of justice, which is no justice at all...

...Tensions can be overcome only by "the development of a sense of fellowship, which will embrace those who are different from ua together with those who resemble us...

...The solution to the problem of race antagonisms rests with the religious community: religion must be re-defined to include "only those who equate the love of God with the love of their fellowmen and who strive with all of their being to live according to the demands of this love...

...it does, however, reflects the general tone of the conference aa judgcr by the papers pesented...

...The prevention of group tensions rests on the inoculstion of sn efficient and effective idee of justice...

...It is net differences that create tensions...

...Considerations, of good policy and enlightened self-interest "often lead shortsighted men aatray...

...And that stride, too, k* a aehla hhtog more calm and fluid, more aevereign, actually mere free, than the smart sharp gait ef their apaaaaaii...

...a.' An Editorial— Moscow Intervenes in American Politics The width of the gulf between the U.S.S.R...

...A fundamental mistake, they say, has been "oar failure to apply the moral principles of human dignity and mutual respect in our relations to one another...

...Someone in Washington should drop • sharp sunk to our Russian ally...

...Rev...

...The former pointed te the "moral obligations and responsibilities incumbent upon men by reason of their human nature and per-eenality," which are "further enhanced and deepened hy their participation in the life of the Kingdom of God...

...r Actually thia resolution, unanimously adopted, reflects mainly, in its emphasis on religious-moral principles, less than half of the twenty papera presented— in my opinion only eight of the papers...

...for if we eliminate one set of differences, another set will take their place and in turn become the source of mischief...

...When a writer speaks in War and tki Working Classes it io aa If Stalin or Molotov were giving ordere to folk wees...