A statement that the Nazis are doomed because of their abuse of religion, was made here last night by Assistant Secretary of State A.A. Berle, Jr., speaking at a dinner which marked the closing of the five-day Columbia University Conference on Religion in the Modern World.
“If the Nazi rulers had been more theologically minded than they were,” Berle said, “they would have realized something which they now are finding out to their present grief and their ultimate disaster. They would have found that the moment a faith is perverted, the moment a design is invented which excludes humanity, it must either conquer the world and assassinate every free spirit or it must eventually die.” The Assistant Secretary of State declared that there can be no doubt of an ultimate victory over the Nazis whether on the political, military or spiritual plane.
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