Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archbishop Fisher's "devastating dictum," describing everybody who is not a Communist or a convinced Christian as an amiable nonentity, smacks of self-adulation and strikes me as "somewhat less than humility. I wonder what the gentle Christ would say to that on the occasion of His second coming...
...West Germany last week came the first warning of the trouble that can flow from the defeat of EDC. In Schleswig-Holstein, the poorest and most discontented of West Germany's nine states, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic coalition suffered a setback at the polls. Where Adenauer got 47% of the vote last year, his slate last week got only 32%, a drop of 250,000 votes. The opposition Social Democrats, who got 26.5% of the vote last time, actually outdrew the Christian Democrats by 11,000 votes...
Nonetheless, the headlines around the world next day were misleading. The voting was only for the state legislature, and even there, with the help of small parties, the Christian Democrats will be able to keep control. The vote was indeed a rebuff to 78-year-old Konrad Adenauer, but it was not a threat to his continuance in office. No matter how local elections go, his term runs until 1957, and-his two-thirds majority in the national Bundestag is the largest in Western Europe...
...This Montesi case," said Turin's La Stampa, a journal both respected and friendly to the Christian Democrats, "is growing into the big and decisive test of Italian democracy. Either we face without fear the test of truth and confound our accusers, or we shall be submerged in the mud which is now being thrown...
Seething over this latest example of the Christian Democrats' new determination to harass the enemy by every legal means, the Communists called a one-day citywide strike in Florence. And at a merry festa in Ravenna, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was so mad he let his fangs show. Usually he talks a sweetly reasonable line; last week he gloated over the death of EDC, hailed the armistice in Indo-China and boiled with indignation at the banning of the festa in Florence...