The New Review May 1945

In certain instances the main ideas have already been indicated in the discussion of the role of the emperor and of the influence of the Shinto tenets. [...] 'The national experience of the Japnese people and the will of the gods are one and identical and the Japanese race was placed on earth as the realiztion of the life of the gods and is posessed of their attributes.' As a result the Yamato race is uniquely intelligent and brave. [...] At the outset the Nazis could dream of turning into a fortress the area bounded by the Black Forest the Odenwald the Taunus and Westerwald in the west by the Thuringen Wald and the Northern Carpathians in the north by the Moravian chain in the east and by the Alps in the south. [...] In France in spite of the efforts of the Gallicans it could sever capture to its profit the spiritual power of the Chuch but when the Revolution broke out it became one with the Philosophy of the the Enlightenment and it supplanted Christianity as a quasreligion of State. [...] The Encyclical Rerum novarum on the condition of the wormen was no more a timid attempt to keep up with the times and to find a `via media.' Leo XIII described the tragic situation of the workmen merclessly exploited by the capitalists in terms as energetic as those of Marx and he was not less clear and firm in stating the rights of both parties the duty of the State to interfere and the