Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to "dose" the vote: shifting some abstentions to yes and some negative votes to abstention. Carefully, they picked the men to switch-no Deputy wanted to be the only one in his area to vote for German arms. The Catholics of the M.R.P. had already heard from their Christian Democrat colleagues in Germany and Italy (Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Italian Christian Democrats, made a missionary trip to Paris). In their caucus, "good European" Robert Schuman announced that he intended to vote yes, and was greeted by jeers from the unforgiving followers of Georges Bidault...
...Left could count on picking up 3,500,000 votes from them. It could also count on "those Christian Socialists who passionately love justice, including social justice . . . Would this mean an other Popular Front? No. For the man who would take Leon Blum's place - and he is a successor to Blum in many ways - is not a Marxist. The perspective would not be pro-Marxist; it would be New Deal." Old Virtues. Another recruit to the New Left is Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, chief editorial writer of the influential Figaro, who has professed him self disillusioned...
Meanwhile, Governor Christian A. Herter '15, alarmed at the merger, conferred yesterday with William J. Cunningham, the author of a 1930 study against a linking of the two roads. Herter said last week that he objected to the possibility of non-New England financial interests gaining potentially monopolistic control over New England rail transportation...
...France, Italy last week ratified the Paris accords with a minimum of argument and a maximum of assent. Resisting every parliamentary maneuver to block and delay by Western Europe's biggest Communist Party, Liberals, Monarchists, neoFascists, Republicans and right-wing Socialists joined with Premier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats to vote 335 to 215 for German rearmament in NATO...
This year Americans can give more for less. The tax law for 1954 contains three important changes that will enable generous citizens to make larger contributions to church and charity, and Tax Expert Merle H. Miller ticks them off in the Christian Century of Dec. 22. Items...