Word: germanic
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Sure, a political party doesn't haveto live up to its name. The German Democratic Republic, after all, was East Germany under the communists. In Mexico, the Institutional Reform Party (PRI) has been the protector of that nation's state of high corruption for the better part of a century. But it sure helps ? and this election year the Reform party has a chance to begin living up to its very purposeful name. There is perhaps an equal chance that the infant party will turn instead down the path that leads to the electoral deep dungeon where...
...theologian had already branded Hitler's Pope a "shameful libel." Cornwell, a practicing Catholic, says he originally enlisted "on the side of all these chaps in believing Pius had had a really bad deal" at his critics' hands. But research into the lightly trod territory of Pius' decades-long German involvement before his papacy left Cornwell in a state of "moral shock," he says. "The material I had gathered amounted not to an exoneration but to an indictment." In the end, Cornwell concluded Pius "was Hitler's pawn...
...Pius, born Eugenio Pacelli, hailed from a family of Vatican loyalists dedicated to tightening Rome's rein on its semi-independent European churches. As a diplomat in Germany, he pursued the long-term goal of a church-state pact granting Rome near total control over its Teutonic flock. No German leader would sign--until Hitler...
...dictator set only a few conditions: the disbanding of the Catholic-dominated German Center Party and the defining of any Catholic criticism of Nazi political acts as "foreign interference." The 1933 concordat, claims Cornwell, "imposed a moral duty on Catholics to obey the Nazi rulers" and so neutered Germany's "last democratic focus." (Catholics made up one-third of the German population.) Pacelli, meanwhile, commenced his long silence on Jewish persecution...
...shabby for someone whose first post-graduation job was working as towel boy in a German...