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From socialism's earliest beginnings down through the years to the present, the Roman Catholic Church has branded the Marxist doctrine of socialism with its disapproval. That disapproval became such a political reflex that Catholic parties often seemed to be identified with opposition to social progress itself. The effort to correct this impression, plus the urgent menace of Communism, gave birth, in post-World War II in Europe, to the surprisingly successful Christian Democratic movements in Italy, Western Germany, Belgium and France...
...predicted $1.7 billion. Next twelvemonth the Government may spend even more, possibly as much as $1.5 billion more than the estimated $71.8 billion budget. What all this means is that despite pleas from every quarter the U.S. cannot even consider a tax cut this year or next. The earliest date for a cut would be January 1959, and then only if the Government succeeds in checking its spending and inflation. Said Brundage: "For the present, I believe that our major fiscal objectives should be to maintain a budget surplus and continue reductions in the public debt, with reductions...
...government's fault: "We lacked initiative in propaganda and substance in ideology." The Red victory, by Chiang's reckoning, was only 20% military; for the rest he details the case histories of treachery, infiltration, propaganda, the exploitation of an uprooted social order. One of the Reds' earliest tactics, recalls Chiang, was to incite the poor of a village to loot before Communist agents burned down the house of the landlords; then they would let the fire spread to the houses of the poor, too, so that the homeless could be forced into the Red ranks. This...
...items. In the bland climate of U.S. letters, true satire rarely flourishes, but the chilling ferocity of West's satirical attack would be rare anywhere. It involves not only a total rejection of common American ideals, but a Swiftian loathing for the texture of life itself. In his earliest work West recognized this of himself, in the character of a Cultured Fiend who says: "I was completely the mad poet. I was one of those 'great despisers' whom Nietzsche loved because 'they are the great adorers; they are arrows of longing for the other shore...
...birth. On her deathbed she made only one request: she asked that Congressman Little's $5 be used to buy her newborn baby a Bible. So John was left to grow up with the Bible and his father Ike-who still thinks sadly of John's earliest days and calls him "that poor little fellow...