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VATICAN CITY, Feb. 13-Vatican circles said today anathema-the most dreaded and awesome form of excommunication in the Roman Catholic Church-conceivably may be invoked against the foes of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty at tomorrow's extraordinary papal consistory...
...Cominform. Fajon, permanent representative of the French party on the Cominform, was just back from Bucharest. He bore a letter from Cominform Boss Andrei Zhdanov to Thorez. The Cominform message rebuked Thorez secretly for the same view of nationalism which had drawn the public thunderbolt of Cominform anathema to Tito's head. Zhdanov said that Thorez had not stuck close enough "to the basic and permanent principles of proletarian internationalism." As was clear from the rest of the letter, this Communist gobbledygook meant that Thorez was deemed guilty of substituting a modicum of French nationalism for 100% subservience...
...Communists adopt the tactics of parliamentary government. But their purpose is to seduce the liberals, mislead the conservatives, and confuse everyone. A truly liberal government is an anathema to them. They do not want reform for others. They want power for themselves...
Decorated Town. In return, Nichols Studded the area with Grecian urns, Italian marble fountains, Spanish gates and birdbaths imported from Europe. Sixteenth Century Italian columns bought from the William Randolph Hearst collection adorn a Kroger superstore. Though these ginger-bready decorations are anathema to severely functional planners such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Country Club residents like them. Despite his weakness for the 16th Century, Nichols has also pioneered some 20th Century improvements, such as shopping areas in outlying districts, parking lots, rigid zoning laws...
There are few people who would not be directly affected by one or more of these proposals. Every single proposal is likely to be anathema to some particular economic group. Mr. Turman was particularly brave in proposing wage ceilings for certain industries--a matter which several commentators had already concluded he would not dare to touch...