Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical matter, the democrat searched the past for every bit of political or economic wisdom which he could fit into a pattern useful for the present...
Eternal Distinction. The democrat, who believed in the practical necessity of compromise and who acknowledged the innate imperfection and imperfectibility of man, had a creed of his own. He acknowledged the eternal distinction between the things of God and the things of Caesar, and the eternal distinction between fundamental principle and practical human expedience. He admitted that he did not understand the things of God; but to the pitifully small extent that he did understand them he called them principles-and on those he could never compromise. One of those principles, however hard of application, was Freedom. Another of those...
Evanescent Chance. Pondering the great events of 1945, the democrat could justly feel that once again he had been given another chance. One generation of tyrants had been overcome; there were many places on earth where a man could walk proudly, no matter his race or religion, his economic or political beliefs...
Twenty-seven years ago, as World War I ended, a middle-aged Social Democrat named Karl Renner became Chancellor of the first Austrian Republic. Last week, a World War later, 75-year-old Karl Renner, still a Social Democrat, was elected President of the Second Austrian Republic...
...days before, had gone three ministers of whom the Russians did not approve. Marshal Ivan S. Konev, Soviet representative on the Allied Control Council, had objected to Julius Raab and Vincent Schumy (Volkspartei) and Andreas Korp (Social Democrat). Raab and Schumy, said the Russians, were tainted by fascism, Korp by collaboration...