Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope searingly rejected the Communist charge that, with the complicity of the Holy See, Mindszenty had plotted against the Hungarian government. But he defended Mindszenty's right to oppose his government on certain measures contradicting "divine and human rights." Said the Pope: "Bishops and the faithful themselves are bound by their own conscience to resist unjust laws...
...Mindszenty's tormentors the Pope said: "Let us all pray . . . that those who rashly dare to trample on the liberty of the Church and the rights of human conscience may at length understand that no civil society can endure when religion has been suppressed and God, as it were, driven into exile...
...coolies sought refuge in dry alleyways where they spent hours culling their tattered palm-frond raincoats for lice. At night they slept on the sidewalks wrapped in dirty burlap bags awaking only to chase away marauding rats which feast in the swill-strewn streets after the city's human population has retired...
Flush Toilets & Farms. The inch-by-inch family farming here produces among the highest per-acre yields in the world, or Japan would long since have starved. There have been grave postwar shortages: fertilizers and farm supplies. Nitrates are now so scarce that human manure provides half the nitrogen used on farms. If flush toilets were installed throughout Japan, its agriculture would be wrecked overnight...
Dean Pound concluded that we must follow the first alternative in order to have a consistent policy of supporting all constitutional governments which recognize basic human rights...