Notes on a Talk with Dr. Tawney

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Dr. Tawney thought that K.P. and J.M. were essentially right when they spoke of “crisis” and “choice”, and when they said that the choice was about spiritual issues. He pointed out that Fascism, at any rate in its German manifestations, was already discovering that it was inconsistent with Christianity in any form, and was going back two thousand years for its religion. He thought the crimes of National Socialism arose from its essential nature, whereas the crimes of Communism as …

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Date: February 12th, 1936
KPA: 21/21, 12-13