Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian Case. Nehru often says that the destiny of Asia must depend upon the friendship of India and Red China. He attaches tremendous significance to his belief that India and Red China share common problems-poverty, overpopulation and "white" imperialism -and must tend toward one another because of them. He never chooses publicly to mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like...
...military academy. He is 40, popular in the army and among the people, less provincial than the narrow, little-traveled Arbenz. Last year he publicly declared: "There will be no Communists in the officers' corps while I am in command." He supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there was nothing to prove that he saw Red influence over the President as a critical problem. But his first acts in power were to 1) form a three-man junta that included a vocal antiCommunist, 2) outlaw the Communist Party...
...Harry Truman held the same belief, but had to back away when it became known that he also favored a twelve-year service limit in each chamber, and oldtimers in his party became enraged...
...series of writings that now add up to some 30 heavy volumes (some of them in "automatic writing" dictated to him, as he believed, from the spirit world), he evolved a new Christian theology centered in a merging of the orthodox Trinity into Lord Jesus Christ and the belief that the Christ's Second Coming had already occurred-in the form of the Word, revealed to Emanuel Swedenborg. The afterlife and spirit world were as real to the new Swedenborg as his native Stockholm. He made Sweden's Queen Louisa Ulrica blanch with a secret message from...
Citation: "Sidewalk superintendent of our times, voice of our conscience, literate exponent of the belief that humor ought to speak the truth." Paul Johannes Tillich, theologian...