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That night, when Mr. Silkin rose to speak at the town hall, he was greeted with yells of "Gestapo!" "Hark, the dictator!" "We want our birthright!" Red-faced Mr. Silkin shouted back: "Really, you are the most ungenerous people...
...minorities to veto advances by the majority" hit a sensitive spot. Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, who demands a separate Moslem state (Pakistan), accused Attlee of "rope-walking," repeated his doctrine that "the Moslems of India are not a minority but a nation, and self-determination is their birthright." Again he threatened civil war if the British and Congress reject Pakistan. If it is a question, he said, of "who can shed the more blood . . . the Moslems can and will play a part, if driven to desperation, that will bring about a real civil...
...Huck. It is this incarnation of the U.S. small-town mind at its best-a kind of adult blend of Tom Sawyer's intelligence and Huck Finn's human decency- that gave his life and gives his autobiography its special flavor. Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom...
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...