Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faith of a Bishop...
...only believe in the divinity of Christ but hold that it is the central doctrine of the Christian faith. . . . To question the political activities of the Roman Catholic Church is not to question the divinity of Christ...
...plight of European Jews when it asked immediate admission of 100,000 to Palestine, but it recognized, too, the religious significance of the Holy Land to many peoples; it examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed in Great Britain by the League; it rejected the 1937 Peel Commission's contention that might (and oil) make right, but it refused, too, to put its trust in a short-sighted, if definite, series of figures...
Successful representative government, even on the national level, requires general agreement on certain broad policies and a faith on the part of the governed that, no matter who exercises power, the structure of the government and the liberties of the subject will remain intact. In the international sphere this area of agreement is simply non-existant. A common desire for peace is not enough. It is fantastic to think that the United States, Britain, Russia, or China would submit to a majority approved policy which conflicted with an important national interest. The world is not yet ready to conduct...
Says Hook: "Whatever a liberal education is, few American colleges offer it." Only "educational quacks," Hook adds, share the St. John's and Chicago faith in the classics as a storehouse of answers to man's perennial problems. It is "hazardous ... to lay down an ideal education for all men, at all times, everywhere...