Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the vote on the Enabling Act, Chancellor Hitler read a declaration of policy to the Reichstag that was mild as buttermilk compared with his former utterances. There was the old insistence on "rooting out Communism to the last vestige" but on the other hand "the Government regards the question of monarchistic restoration as indiscussible at present...
...vigorous renewal of their age-old attacks on Mammon. But only the Roman Catholic Church may be said to have an official attitude on "Economics." This attitude, based on Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), the Statesman-Pope, Pius XI, has elaborated in many a pronouncement. Denouncing Communism, rejecting Socialism, chiding Capitalism, finding Syndicalism (the Fascist type of government-in-business) too powerfully concentrated, Pius XI has come out for: minimum wage laws; old-age pensions; private property, even a "modest fortune" for workers; government regulation of business; co-operation between Capital & Labor in some form of local...
...flew over the Great Wall and contented himself with saying: "There is a Japanese soldier pointing a rifle at every Chinese inhabitant, but keeping down nationalism is like sitting on a horse's head-there's no time to do anything else. The Chinese should study Communism." In Hawaii, though he refused to be garlanded with lei, he said: "I sincerely hope you never permit Christianity to destroy or change the beauty of your dances. They have the charm of unspoiled nature...
Vast issues these were; unfortunately, vast enough to goad the Rhode Island State Legislature into the game. Sniffing that old devil communism, the vigilants empowered their speaker to appoint the time honored investigating committee. With the old Brown facility for going one better, a grieved alumnus beseeched the Federal District Attorney to do his bit as Torquemada also. But the Herald, nothing daunted, rejoined in brave tones that theirs was "the higher patriotism...
...Evanston Reveres published a pamphlet crying up the fact that Dr. Tittle is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. The Union, said the Reveres, gets money from Communists. Communism and Atheism are the same thing, and "a preacher speaking the word of God in a House of God should not be a member of an atheistic society." The pamphlet also flayed Dr. Tittle for letting young Negroes mingle with young whites at a church party. And at the "Reverend Sirs" of Evanston the Reveres leveled three questions which seemed aimed chiefly at Dr. Tittle: "Would you be good...