Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...send me from time to time, I can't recognize the land in which I am living. There is no censorship of the press. . . . The papers . . . which I see every day are as critical of the government as they like and are allowed a liberty in time of civil war which I do not think for a moment we in America would tolerate under like circumstances...
...ranks. Suddenly Democrats everywhere began to realize that Harry Truman looked like a sure loser in November. The Southern revolt was beginning to look like a rebellion. Even the most liberal of Southern Democrats could no longer buck the bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates to the party's July convention...
From all directions, a Democratic clamor went up for Ike. Nobody knew exactly what Eisenhower's views were on civil rights, on labor problems, on Palestine. Nobody much cared. Those who now backed him thought that Ike, if he wanted to, could win the presidency in a breeze-for either party. To the disintegrated Democrats, it looked as if he might provide the leadership and the magic touch which Franklin Roosevelt had once given the party...
...some significant things to say about tolerance: "I have committed many blunders during these past ten years, but the worst was my tolerance toward the Communists. I allowed them to take part in the People's Political Council and gave them other privileges which resulted in our present civil war. However, I am confident that we will not repeat this mistake...
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev (pronounced Bird-yah-yev) was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, but he was never orthodox in either religion or politics. He was exiled to northern Russia when he was 25 for declaring that the church under the Czars was subservient to civil power. After the revolution, he was twice imprisoned and later exiled for criticizing Marxism. In 1923 he went to live in Paris, where he headed the Russian Y.M.C.A. press, edited his magazine, Put', and wrote at least 40 books...