ABSTRACT
Amid rumors of war and preparations for war, amid a deepening crisis, with much of the world already at war, it is instructive to note in the Monday papers what some of the most prominent spiritual leaders had to tell their congregations on Sunday, November 30, 1941. The generation that fought the last war, he observed, had done so in the belief that the next generation would never have to make their sacrifice or repeat their experience. The minute the White House could no longer roll out the red carpet for the reception of royalty and the moment that the New York snobs could no longer bob and curtsey, the high pressure campaign to destroy the country for the benefit of foreigners would languish. It is clear that the spirit of Mayor Carter Harrison was alive and well in Chicago in December 1941.
