Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human rights against the police state. We are just as sure to lose if we think that the "human rights" argument is to be used only when strategic interests are at stake. You simply cannot argue that Tito's regime is odious whereas Zervas is a Jeffersonian Democrat...
WANTED: Ambitious young Democrat, slightly left of center, resident Eastern U.S., effective social presence, proved political success, Protestant. World War II record highly desirable but not imperative. For pleasant, remunerative ($20,000-a-year) position, easy hours, opportunity for advancement, apply Democratic National Committee, Mayflower Hotel, Washington...
Nowadays, Atheist Togliatti firmly clutches the palm branch. Recently, in the Italian Assembly, one of his Christian Democrat opponents ended a bombastic speech with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin; the next speaker windily invoked the Holy Ghost. Communist Togliatti did not reply with dialectical materialism; instead, his steady voice crackled out the First Commandment-"lo sono il Signore Dio tuo. . . ." His fellow legislators cheered...
...Author Carlo Levi tells movingly of an Italian village too tiny and remote (according to local tradition) even for the attention of the Messiah. In the messianic fervor of Italy's Communists today, however, no village is too remote. North & south where no road leads and no Christian Democrat cares to venture, the Communists are on hand to persuade, threaten or cajole with promises of worldly salvation. Last week, from Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled a revealing glimpse of the way humbler party officials work their wonders in two little towns...
...must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion. Don Vittorio, the landowners and shopkeepers have all canceled their subscriptions to Rome's Christian Democrat daily, now read only Giannini's neo-Fascist II Buonsenso. Grumbled one: "What else can we do now-except join the Communists...