Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freedom of the press was the clearest example. Liberal-Catholic MRP committeemen wanted a "guarantee" that it would not be tampered with, considered a slight case of press control as dangerous as a slight case of cancer. Communists and Socialists feared a return to France's prewar corrupt press standards, which reached the reeking point in the '30s when Le Matin and other papers sold out to the Germans. The Communist Humanité tiraded against allowing the press to be controlled by the wealthy, warned that "trusts" must not "dominate public opinion contrary to real freedom...
...Said German Ernst Haeckel: "Not even the clearest and most precise logic makes a man a match for a Jesuit...
...Clearest example of the new trend was the size of Georges Bidault's brand-new Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...
...Little Two? Between them, Churchill and Bevin sped Attlee to Washington with the clearest statement yet of British purposes. The British Government (but not the entire British public) was willing to pay high for a new Big Two-the U.S. and Britain. Furthermore, the British Government was willing, even anxious, to be the junior partner in the alliance...
...second time in less than four months, Britons had given Labor the clearest of green lights. Now it could go full steam ahead to socialism...