Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notable expression of Natural Moral Law was, and is, the English common law. Under the acceptance of Natural Moral Law, Europe achieved a relatively high degree of order, applicable to all phases of life, alike "to the work of the craftsman and to the policies of the princes." If Christian morality was not universally practiced at all times, it was at least universally accepted in the West as a guide for action, a beacon, a standard...
...This Bavaria of ours is really a circus," explained Josef Mueller, pulling back his thick, rubbery lips in a wide grin. "Jo" should know. Bavaria's canniest politician, he heads the Christian Social Union, its top party machine, an unwieldy, feud-ridden alliance of anti-Marxists which controls 104 of the provincial Landtag's 180 seats. Jo of course was speaking not of Fasching but of Bavaria's political life...
...Emptiness. German nationalism is growing in Bavaria, and growing fast. What has been called "democratization" is proceeding slowly. Every German political leader with whom I have talked here -Socialist or Christian Democrat or Separatist-acknowledges these two facts at once. The future, not of Bavaria alone but all Germany, and perhaps all Europe, depends heavily on whether the U.S. reacts to these facts with only a shudder, or with intelligence and understanding...
...bill to "safeguard the Christian ideals of American education" will be taken up by the Education Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature within two weks. Behind its pious title, it contains threats against the tax-exempt status and the charter of any educational institution which "knowingly employs in its faculty one who advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence." Representative Ralph Sullivan of Boston, author of the measure, claims that charters and tax exemptions are given to colleges by the state in return for such services as "improving standards of education" and "taching respect...
Negro Minister Graham took an optimistic, long-range view of the whole todo: "The net result is all to the good. Those of us who don't want to go along with the American way of life, which is the Christian way, should be shown...