Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy See if those governments delayed or refused exit permits, as they did to Mindszenty, even though it is not absolutely necessary for a newly created cardinal to be present at the consistory." In the particular case of Prague's Archbishop Beran, some Catholic authorities fear that the Communist government would consider his elevation a provocative act, and retaliate by attacking...
...Communism. For them, he says, the casting aside of God is "a basic act of moral choice." It is, in other words, an act of faith in reverse which, in pretending to deny religion, "is a full-blown religious commitment." But it is a tragic failure. Example: the Communist, whose atheism begins as a declaration of independence, plunges into a new slavery "to a worldly demiurge crazy for human minds to bend and bow and yield . . . the blind god of history...
...Rome, the Communist-line newspaper Il Paese shrilled against a "red-uniformed army which today has an outpost . . . even in the remotest parts of our countryside." Communists launched a whispering campaign that the "army" sold a drink which could turn a child's hair white overnight. Last week, the official Communist organ L'Unita shot the works in a headline: DRINKS COCA-COLA AND DIES. (L'Unita's victim was identified by another newspaper as a heart fatality...
...victim of a radio blacklist initiated by Counterattack, a weekly newsletter offering "facts to combat Communism." Counterattack's managing editor, ex-FBIman Theodore Kirkpatrick, answered Sweets by charging that the blacklist shoe was on the other foot, that he knew of "a number of instances" in which anti-Communist actors could not get radio jobs because the directors and producers were Communists or fellow travelers...
Said Kirkpatrick: "We take the stand that no one should be fired for political beliefs-but membership in the Communist Party or in a number of Communist fronts is entirely different. The Communist Party is not a political party in the strict sense of the word - it's simply a fifth column for the Soviet Union." Earlier this year, Sweets resigned as president of the Radio & Television Directors' Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner...