Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism can be viewed as an anti-Western movement or as the spearhead of Western ideas" according to Christopher Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic studies. Dawson, the first Roman Catholic to be appointed to the Divinity School, held a press conference there yesterday...
...authority on Catholicism, Dawson held that Catholicism and Communism could never be reconciled, because "Communism is primarily a monolithic power organization and would never consent to a division of spiritual and temporal powers...
...posters, scrawling Oui De Gaulle on every surface available. Propaganda films make the rounds of the villages, suggesting to women that a oui vote will put a new stove in every kitchen. Troops assemble the local population to warn them that non is a "vote for Communism." Even Commander in Chief Raoul Salan and his wife have taken to the hustings; Salan claims to have spoken to 2,000,000 people, telling them that "the Mediterranean crosses France the way the Seine crosses Paris," while his wife makes speeches to Moslem women...
...West for being "repulsively materialistic." If the "wonderful springs of the mind and the spirit in American existence" can "be tapped and mediated to the rest of the world," says Malik, a "spiritualized materialism" might grow up to embody Western life and faith and provide the saving answer to Communism...
Hoover admits that revolutions may be good or bad, "but St. John's horseman had no good purpose ... We do not allow our imaginations to extend to the idea that St. John was prophesying Communism, even though one is tempted, partly because of the prophetic statement that power was given to the horseman 'to take peace from the world...