Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Bercenay, France, Jean Baudin, who says that he has read every issue of TIME cover to cover for the last three years, sent in the following confession: "I have never been a Communist, but must confess that I was certainly far redder years ago than I am now. TIME'S influence, I think, or rather its undistorted articles one reads every week and remembers easily, brought forth this change...
J.B.S. Haldane, Britain's leading geneticist and a staunch Communist, has been beset for some time now by a problem of basic loyalties. Should he follow the Moscow-approved genetics line of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms)? Or should he follow the Morgan-Mendelian theory (that the genes in the reproductive cells control heredity), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., but formally denounced by Soviet officialdom as unscientific and un-Marxist...
...Rumania the Communist government decreed last week that all welfare activities by Roman Catholic religious orders must cease by Aug. 15. Monks and nuns engaged in charity and hospital work, said the decree, were no longer needed in a solicitous People's Democracy...
Dissolved by this Communist ukase were about 15 Catholic charitable organizations, among them the internationally known nursing sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. The 1,400 nuns and 100 monks affected were given 15 days to make up their minds whether to 1) retire to one of three cloisters and two monasteries set aside by the government for the purpose; 2) enter homes for the aged; 3) quit clerical life altogether and register for jobs at state employment bureaus...
...announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus applying the recent Vatican decree of excommunication (TIME, July...