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...Communism can be warded off only by a 'better justice' on the part of the Western world, not by the all too cheap denials in which the fear of the West is now expressing itself. Nor can I confess allegiance to ... [the] 'Christian West'; rather I think that the locus of Christianity is to be sought above today's conflict between East and West...
...took no part, or only a small part, in the 'ecumenical movement,' indeed had all kinds of criticisms to make of it, since all 'movements' as such have always been and still are somewhat suspect in my eyes. But in this case I must confess, using the words in their ordinary sense, 'My mind has changed...
...their fears unloose their tongues. Fingal and Pelancey are soon suspected by several people: Pelancey's clerk who overhears their quarrel; his devout cleaning girl, who drags the truth out of him and urges him to confess; Barty's shrewd old mother; and the dead man's former mistress...
Ulcerated Hearts. Confess and do penance as they will, they can neither undo their crime nor heal the ulcers in their hearts; for, says Author Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...
...Poland, "a thorough purge is going on in all phases of Jewish life . . . Politically conscious peoples are being forced to liquidate their past, and confess to crimes they never committed. Those who are able [to do so] flee the country...