Word: birthrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rome and the U.S. The Church today must look to the U.S. for food to relieve the hunger and despair which, it well knows, drive angry men to claim their birthright as Cain claimed his. It looks to the U.S. as an example of the form of government which today promises the most for the Church's survival. It looks to the U.S. as an idealistic people who have at last chosen, or been forced, to take their place in international affairs. And it looks to Francis Cardinal Spellman as the practical, idealistic American who can best advise...
...stands revealed that Harry S. Truman . . . is President of the United States in name only. . . . We have been robbed of our birthright and stripped of our honor because President Truman and his picked associates . . . have had neither the wit nor the courage to face their duties. . . . This group is at the core Communistic and takes its orders from Moscow. . . . Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Truman plays the piano...
...when he said: "Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. . . . But-a fact important for both of us to remember-neither London nor Abilene, sisters under the skin, will sell their birthright for physical safety, her liberty for mere existence...
...speak from, A.P. Executive News Editor Price (on leave) chose the Library of Congress, which had just acquired an original of the Bill of Rights. Said he: the Bill of Rights is "a map, not a railroad ticket, to the millennium. . . . A free press is obligated by its birthright to be a competent press, produced by competent men. The press neither does its duty nor fulfills its destiny if it poisons its news columns with propaganda and private opinions; or is careless of its facts; or presents editorials written by the uninformed and swayed by hearsay; or publishes misleading advertising...
Said Lord Halifax: "Small wonder if men & women everywhere are unsatisfied and ill at ease, since in their hour of greatest need they have lost that which was indeed their birthright - the knowledge of how to pray. Yet, amid all the sorrow and darkness . . . there is consolation. The example alone of heroism . . . as it appears in thousands of lives . . . [shows] that man has renounced the philosophy which paralyzed so much literature and art in the prewar world. Truly, as day by day we see acts of willing self-sacrifice . . . we can . . . turn with firm confidence from the temporary triumphs...