Significance for Soldiers

"Compared with [the] British program, the U.S. Army is culturally and educationally poverty-stricken. . . ."

Ten weeks in Great Britain had given Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr that high-low opinion of the British and U.S. Army education systems. In last week's Nation he cited chapter and verse, was at his caustic best on the subject of the U.S. Army daily paper Stars & Stripes: It "not only carries baseball box scores but has a daily photo of some glamor queen, usually a Hollywood star . . . presumably for the purpose of providing 'pin-ups.' ... In short, nothing is lacking . . . except serious discussion about the meaning of the war and the best means of using the fruits of victory creatively."

Warned Niebuhr: "The American soldier . . . lacks help in finding the spiritual and moral significance of the titanic struggle in which he is engaged. We may one day rue this neglect. . . ."

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