Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only country which can today actively resist Fascism, says Mr. Mumford, and it should be prepared to "accept the challenge of democratic leadership." He recommends, first of all, noncooperation with the "exploiting classes in England and France in their policy of appeasing Fascism." Says he: "To cooperate with a Chamberlain is to invite upon our own heads a betrayal similar to that which Czechoslovakia encountered...
Last May 11. under the leadership of one Belmiro Valverde, Brazil's Fascist Integralistas put on their green shirts under fake naval uniforms and spilled a lot of red blood (mostly their own) trying to take over President Getulio Vargas' Government. They failed, and their leaders were jailed. Several months later, Field Commander Valverde, with the prison guards' connivance, walked out of jail, disappeared...
Last week out stepped a new bidder for mass leadership. He is 54, florid, fleshy and fresh. He comes from the western end of North Carolina. His name is Robert Rice Reynolds. Called "Our Bob" by the homespun folks who vote for him, he is half-baked, has been in the U. S. Senate since 1932. This session two inspirations have made him more vocal than usual...
With President Bose's one-year term about up, Saint Gandhi looked around for a more tractable successor. Complicating factor, however, was that the President decided to run for another term, thus openly challenging the Gandhi leadership for the first time. First Gandhi nominee was bearded Persian Scholar Moulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Mohammedan. He promptly withdrew after being hooted out of a meeting. Nominee No. 2 was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gandhi's right-hand man. He also withdrew. Final choice was Dr. Patthabhi Sitaramayya of Madras, who received Saint Gandhi's and the Congress high command...
...priests.* Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy, looking businesslike to South American churchmen, who still wear their soutanes in the street, visited papal nuncios and hierarchs, talked with them in Italian and French, found everywhere that Latin American prelates look to the U. S. hierarchy for social and cultural leadership-a leadership which has been slow in materializing...