"The two basic instincts in man are the egoistic and the altruistic. Both are satisfied in the Soviet Union instead of being in conflict. This is the result of a collective life."
Excerpts from TLC issues from August, 1945: Remembering the end of World War II, 75 years ago this week, marked by solemn services and spontaneous joy across the country; with an editorial by Clifford P. Morehouse, praying for wisdom and humility in victory.
From 75 years ago: Frances Bartter, a clever Episcopal missionary, describes how she hid the United Thank Offering collection of her church in the Philippines from her Japanese captors while interned in a series of concentration camps.
The Bishop of Chichester spoke out in 1944 against the nighttime bombing of several German cities, and mentioned Dresden as one of the cities where he hoped similar destruction would be averted.
We live in the midst of a season of forgetting, a time when the discipline of memory seems too troublesome, too unfashionable, too anachronistic in a time seduced by the new.
