The First Presidency issues a statement condemning both Nazism and Communism.

Date
Oct 1942
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
First Presidency
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

First Presidency Statement, October 1942, in Conference Report (October 1942): 15

Scribe/Publisher
Conference Report
People
First Presidency
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

We condemn the outcome which wicked and designing men are now planning, namely: the worldwide establishment and perpetuation of some form of Communism on the one side, or of some form of Nazism or Fascism on the other. Each of these systems destroys liberty, wipes out free institutions, blots out free agency, stifles free press and free speech, crushes out freedom of religion and conscience. Free peoples cannot and do not survive under these systems. Free peoples the world over will view with horror the establishment of either Communism or Nazism as a worldwide system. Each system is fostered by those who deny the right and the ability of the common people to govern themselves. We proclaim that the common people have both this right and this ability.

We renew our declaration that international disputes can and should be settled by peaceful means. This is the way of the Lord.

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