Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mollet, in his ten weeks as chief of France's first Socialist-run government in eight years, has had frustratingly little chance to carry out Socialist policies. Like most Socialists a visceral pacifist, he has been compelled by events to call up troops to wage war in Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military...
...Third, I looked about to see what ideas were held by individual Christians and churches in other places. I found no other laymen crusading for integration, no pastors making an issue of segregation in their sermons, no concerted action for integration on the part of churches, no clarion call for unity of races in the worship of Christ by the Southern Baptist Convention, and there is silence in the denominational papers...
...some circles religion has become an opiate of the people. Present day Christianity is to many people tame and prosaic, prim and dull ... Too many of us have lost Christ's call to heroism and have grown comfortable and commonplace, small in our minds and imaginations. The Christian church has become too much an ambulance, dragging along behind, picking up the wounded, making bandages, and soothing hurt feelings, when the church should be out on the front line, getting hit in the face, but leading others and conquering the enemy...
...this new consensus will support and eventually demand is informed, conscientious, positive action over a long period of time and on many fronts in the direction pointed by the conception of the world as an organic community, divided though it may now be by Soviet ambitions. This effort will call for the full use of our material, physical, and moral resources on a scale which the American people have not yet contemplated in times of peace. Working politicians and students of government both agree that the initiative for such a national commitment must come primarily from the executive...
...Griffin from an Ethiopian student at the Law School. Seyoum Haregot 2L asked the Governor, "Do you think, after listening to you, I should go back to my people and say that we should go along with the United States when down in your part of the country they call us 'niggers...