Word: asceticism
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Pan-Americanism began on board as soon as the Santa Clara pushed out of Panama. Lanky, ascetic Father John F. O'Hara, President of Notre Dame University and chairman of the delegation's committee on intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L...
The question of racism, abhorrent to the international and supranational views of Catholicism, has lately been much on the Pope's mind. There are rumors that he will soon issue an encyclical denouncing racism as a heresy; that a Catholic organization will be launched to combat anti-Semitism throughout...
"We could have engaged in a war of indefinite duration," Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax countered to the House of Lords. "If we had won, nobody, in settling the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, would have redrawn them as they were left by the Treaty of Versailles." Lord Halifax said the reason why...
" The tall, ascetic Opposition pillar of British morality, Viscount Cecil, rebutted: "I suggest that the Four Power Conference was to enable Hitler to get out of his [Godesberg] position with the least loss of reputation!"
Last week it became public knowledge everywhere but in Mexico that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was...