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...Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel the people's will is to achieve a progressive and really socialist life through peaceful and orderly means. . . . You know my sincerely democratic creed. I cannot but stay faithful to this creed even at this moment. ... I beg of you ... let us all together begin negotiations again...
...wing and fellow-traveling activity, Gollancz has discovered that man's only guide in life is a set of ethics absolutely and unconditionally binding under all conditions. When Christ told His followers to love all men as their brothers, He meant-insists Gollancz-exactly what He said. That creed, says Gollancz, may be accepted or rejected but should not be reduced to the petty levels of convenient compromise...
Gollancz concentrates on two major social phenomena which he feels most markedly violate his creed of Christian love: the practices of the Stalin dictatorship and the Allied occupation policy in Germany. In great detail he explores the "specialized idealism" of Stalin's followers, that double-bookkeeping morality which permits them to engage in the most immoral activity precisely because they are sincerely convinced that they work in behalf of a liberating cause. "A communist spy is particularly dangerous ... not because he's a scoundrel but because...
Yearnings of a Creator. Despite the fear of the warders (and in Marxist countries, because of this fear), Marxism persists. It offers far more than a critique of capitalism; in addition, its converts get the only fully developed materialist religion, complete with creed, church, directions for salvation, answers to every question, saints, doctors and devils...
...seem to advocate tolerance for the customary things discriminated against: race, color, creed, religion, etc. However, I do not believe you have ever made a reference to homosexuality (a perfectly legitimate psychological condition) without going specially out of your way to make a vicious insinuation, caustic remark, or "dirty...