Rabbi David de Sola Pool, president of the Synagogue Council of America, asserted yesterday that “if the churches allow themselves to join a clamorous propaganda for war, even under a fine statement of idealism, the spiritual life of America will have to develop despite the clergy and the churches.”
Dr. Pool, speaking in a panel discussion before the women’s seminar group of the Jewish Theological Seminary, said that “the menace to spiritual life in America is not from Hitler and Stalin but from tendencies making for secular materialism and the worship of force.” Other speakers were Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. Henry S. Hendricks, Professors Frederick C. Grant, I.L. Kandel and Louis Finkelstein.
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