Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more tenable belief was that Andrei Zhdanov, press & propaganda chief, Heir-Apparent to the Stalin throne and political leader of the Leningrad district, was hipped on the subject of the defense of the Soviet Union's second largest city and managed to get Dictator Stalin alarmed too. In any case, whatever the causes or reasons, the U.S.S.R.'s grotesque impersonation of a bear being bitten by, a rabbit did the U.S.S.R.'s waning prestige and corroding ideals no worldwide good...
Gedye of the New York Times and others have announced the belief that Bolshevik policy today aims to keep all Europe at war until the day of "World Revolution." Last week this story was nailed by Communist No. 1. He took as his text reports carried by the French Havas News Agency that on Aug. 19 in Moscow, Dictator Stalin, addressing the Politburo or steering committee of the Communist Party, "expounded the idea that the war should last as long as possible so that the belligerents would become exhausted...
...Washington, he made a strong, simple speech, praising George Washington as "a great moderator in bringing together discordant elements in the formation of a constitutional nation"; praising Lincoln as "counsel for the underprivileged . . . foe of malice, teacher of good will"; praising Jefferson for his political philosophy and for his belief "that the average opinion of mankind is in the long run superior to the dictates of the self-chosen." But he also said, "I hope that by January 1941 I shall be able to come to the dedication of the memorial itself...
...showing us in the policies we are resisting where men get to when they reject the Christian belief in God as Creator and Judge. . . . Violence and terror come then to be regarded as the indispensable means of the maintenance and continuance of a society which puts its own political exaltation in place of the divine law. . . . But God is showing also that this idolatry of political power which we see in the enemy is a reaction from a more disguised but not less real idolatry of commercial and financial values that has deeply infected the democratic peoples...
...giving Mr. Browder permission to speak the Yale administration has reaffirmed that belief in academic freedom which characterizes the liberal university. It is a pity that Harvard has fallen so far behind her traditional rival...