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...Beauty and order are inseparable." So Portugal's dour, scholarly Premier António de Oliveira Salazar is fond of saying. As a spangled religious procession wound through a Lisbon park, both these elements of his 14-year-old clerico-fascist regime were evident. Beauty was represented by the silken banners and swinging censers, order by the plainclothesmen of the dreaded P.V.D.E. (Police of Vigilance and Defense of the State...
...minds as the bodies relax." But there have been troublemakers. Just before the U.S. entered World War II, says Swift, "the Communists made my life hell." It may have been because Swift had broken his own rule and was indulging in subtle counter-revolutionary propaganda, using analogies from nature (ant life...
Since TIME and Mr. Churchill have turned to entomological similes and the "soul of the white ant," it may be just as well that it be right...
...Katherine Loughlin" insists that she is not ant-clerical, that she has merely repeated what popes and bishops have said on laymen's passivity. "When the Pope cries, 'Give me leaders!' he means lay as well as clerical. But lay leaders are not to be looked for in a regimented society where every Catholic association is ruled over by a priest. . . . Without these monitors, we might learn to use our own mental and moral muscles...
...Winston Churchill's recent visit to Manhattan he made a foray into politico-entomology. Said he: "Our Communist friends should study . . . the life and the soul of the white ant. That will show them not only a great deal about their past but will give them a fair indication of their future...