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...green sugar island of Cuba has been the citadel of Communism in the Hemisphere. Communist leaders control the 400,000-strong Cuban Confederation of Labor (C.T.C.). The C.T.C., in turn, is the cornerstone of Communist-line Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Latin American Federation of Labor (C.T.A.L.). Last week, in that very citadel, Don Vicente got an unexpected buffeting...
Unitarian van Paassen chose to speak his piece* in one of Catholicism's U.S. strongholds-Boston (which is also the citadel of Unitarianism). The occasion: one of six consecutive evening meetings addressed by such outstanding religious liberals as Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Hungary's Bishop Alexander Szent-Ivanyi. At this Unitarian equivalent of a "preaching mission," tall, 52-year-old Liberal van Paassen gave his staid Bostonian audience no opportunity to doze. If liberalism is indeed the devil, the devil is what he gave them. For a full hour and a quarter he sawed...
...even the duller members of the class could grasp. Britain, its Government had announced, no longer possessed the resources to continue its comparatively puny military aid to Greece. India had all but left the Empire. Burma and Malaya were going. South Africa was tugging at the tether. In the citadel itself were hunger, cold and socialism...
...Chinese to break the hunger hold that constricts reconstruction, lies the peace of Europe. In political terms, this mental health provides the only fertile ground where civil-rights democracy may settle its roots. In terms of the psychology of giving and accepting, the food is aimed at the citadel of cynicism, the hungry student. Far from displays of cynicism, European undergraduates have seized on American food as the pathway to a greater idealism built around the new opportunity for national health and reconstruction...
...training of future generations of professional men. Harvard's president demonstrates forthright honesty when he affirms that the ranks of the professions must be filled with a greater cross-section of America's intellectual wealth. If the true social views of education is to be instilled in the citadel of privilege that higher education continues to be, this view must be enlarged to include concrete plans for the education of the vast numbers of potential businessmen and career specialists whose contributions to society are not diluted by the absence of numerous degrees...