Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitutional convention because it tended to impose too many limitations upon German sovereignty. The Western Allies, cried the Socialists, were trying to create a federal republic with such a weak central government that it could never properly govern. The Socialists were equally mad at their fellow Germans in the Christian Democratic Union, which was stringing along with the plans for a weaker government. At a Socialist meeting in Hannover last week, gaunt, one-armed, one-legged party leader Kurt Schumacher lashed out at the Western Powers as well as the Christian Democrats. "The Socialist Party," he shouted, "is a party...
Mother of Decorum. On Good Friday, as if to reassert Christendom's spiritual claims to the city, a small procession of Christian pilgrims struggled through hail and harsh winds along the Via Dolorosa toward Calvary. In Rome, meanwhile, Pope Pius issued an encyclical appealing for Jerusalem's internationalization and demanding a guarantee of free access for Catholics to Jerusalem's holy places...
Mostly buried in the appendices of Their Finest Hour are the unromantic details-the huffy commands ("The Prime Minister has noticed that the habit of private secretaries . . . addressing each other by their Christian names ... is increasing, and ought to be stopped"), the interminable questions fired at his subordinates: "What arrangements are you making for curing surplus bacon?"; "How many square feet of glass have been destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there...
...verse called 'A Few Christian Poems' won honorable mention for William Akin Morgan '51 of Birmingham, Alabama and Little Hall...
...Allied check on nationalist hopes at Bonn, may persuade enough delegates not to give in, but to keep on trying to get exactly what they want so there will be no constitution at all. Even if the Allies give in to the Social Democrats the action would antagonize the Christian Democrats and result only in another deadlock. If the Bonn council does fail it will be a major defeat for the Western powers who have committed themselves to a German State, and the Germans and Russians know it--perhaps too well...