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COMMUNISM, DEMOCRACY AND CATHOLIC POWER (340 pp.)-Paul Blanshard- fleacon...
...Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican. It is hard to say which one makes his hackles rise higher, but each time he claws at Stalin he manages to scratch the Pope. His 1949 bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (168,000 copies) painted a terrifying picture of a totalitarian church at war with U.S. democracy. His new one is Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. It enlarges on and reiterates his earlier theme, but something new is added: the Kremlin and the Vatican are really quarreling brothers under...
...Blanshard spends a good deal of his book methodically proving that Communism is an evil thing. It is a sound and lucid indictment. It is also an exercise carried out to prove that Roman Catholicism is just as bad or worse...
...method is a series of direct comparisons between the activities of the two in such areas as "thought control," "discipline and devotion" and "the strategy of penetration." Blanshard has satisfied himself that Stalin and the Pope aje pretty much birds of a feather, though he does indulge in such naive conclusions as: "The Communist Party, with all its faults, is tremendously interested in improving the receiving capacity of the Russian mind." Readers can fairly ask: To receive what...
...others are: Sydney E. Ahleirom 5G, Harold Amos 4G, Rufus A. Blanshard 5G, James S. Coleman 4G, Edward L. Daugherty 3G, James H. Eliott 3G, Deno J. Geanakoplos...