Article September 11, 1948 Issue

Signs of the Times

Ideas and Ideals

with contributions from Clark G. Kuebler, F. R. Reiss, Sydney C. Swann, Jr., Roy L. Smith, F.S., Angelo Patri, Godfrey P. Gower

Clark G. Kuebler in an article in The Chaplain Washington, District of Columbia

World War II and our subsequent search for lasting peace have forced us to admit what we ... are prone to forget—that, in the last analysis, ideas and ideals are all-important.

It is an incontrovertible fact that what a man thinks and believes, he is and does. How can we fail to recognize that long before our enemies constituted a military threat they had certain ideas and ideals which made their machines of tyranny and aggression inevitable? And now we see more clearly every day that, even though no longer a military threat, those same ideas and ideals are not wholly dead. Indeed, if we would prevent their being revived, we must carry the fight from the battlefield to the arenas of the mind and the spirit.

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