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...Abstain Is Treason." In normally conservative country districts, the extreme Left scored gains. In normally radical industrial centers, including Paris, the extreme Left lost ground. For this unexpected twist there was an explanation. Communist propaganda had reached its peak effectiveness in the politically conscious cities last October. Since then, city-dwellers had mulled over the Red slogan, "Thorez to Power!", balked at the implication of dictatorship. The crest of Communist propaganda had hit rural areas later. Country folks' reaction to the cry for power to Communist Leader Maurice Thorez might well become evident in next month's elections...
Again, the Communists had failed to reckon with the Church. No blaring slogans or challenging invective came from Catholic pulpits. But on Sunday (i.e., election day) morning, cures throughout France preached that "to abstain from the polls is treason." The congregations went out from Mass to cast their...
...which had originally backed Russia's demand for immediate U.N. action against Franco, supported Australia's proposal for a five-man subcommittee to sift the facts on Spain and suggest by May 31 what "practical measures" U.N. could take. Andrei Gromyko said he "intensely disagreed" but would abstain, "realizing that my vote against the proposal would make its adoption impossible." Gromyko thus reiterated Russia's sweeping interpretation of the veto. Earlier, Russia had threatened another walkout from U.N. After the Council voted down 8-to-3 his demand that it drop Iran from the agenda, Gromyko said...
Saber-tongued Harold Ickes went to work last week at a trade he had often reviled. Hanging out his shingle as a syndicated columnist (97 U.S. newspapers), the old Curmudgeon festooned it with promises: to tell no lies, to pull no punches, to abstain ("unless compelled by events") from promoting a third party. "I have stipulated," Harold Ickes warned all & sundry, "that I may neither be expurgated nor amended...
...told him to peddle his Moscovite peanuts elsewhere. Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, a stout believer in freedom for conscience and for God's church, told Alexei to repeal his Ukase 94 of last February. Key section of that ukase: Orthodox Churchmen in North and South America must "abstain from all political activity against the U.S.S.R...