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...Responsibility. Neutrality, said Oldenburg's Evangelical Bishop D. Gerhard Jacobin, "has become absolutely impossible because wars have become total wars. In the age of democracy the individual cannot push the responsibility for war to the state. The individual is co-responsible, and the Christian must oppose wars waged for the enrichment of the state or for power . . . but in a state of emergency in which moral values are endangered, the defense of these values can be more important than life itself...
...major allies assured, Mendes tried hard to complete the dominance of his own Radical Socialists. He plans wherever possible to run youthful "Jacobin" candidates against supporters of his longtime friend, Edgar Faure, who is now his dearest enemy. In the interest of "clarity," he expelled seven top opponents, chief among them ex-Premier Rene Mayer, whose scathing attack on Mendes over North Africa brought Mendes' downfall. In L'Express, Mendes laid down the lines of his campaign. The real choice, he proclaimed, "is between action and immobility, between the promoters of action and those guilty of 'immobilism...
...McCarthy basically is not the fascist type but the type of the left-wing Populist or Jacobin agitator, the barn burner, the Wild Man, by an infallible instinct and not 'by accident' subverting precisely those institutions that are the most conservative, venerable and patrician-from the Constitution, the most decorated or paternal generals (Marshall, Eisenhower, Taylor, Zwicker) to the leaders of our most deeply established religions and precisely the most ancient of our universities...
...political group of the French Revolution known as the Jacobin Club was not located on the Rue St.-Jacques, nor did it take its name from that street as TIME [July 6] records. The club had as its quarters the former library of the Dominican monks of the Rue St.-Honoré, on the Right Bank...
...Assistant professor of the history of civilization at Michigan State College. **The French Revolution's famous Jacobin club (boss: Robespierre) took its name from its address in the Rue St. Jacques...