Word: libertarianism
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...position seemed to be that The Miracle was not very dangerous to the Catholic faith in Italy, but might be quite damaging to the Catholic Church in the U.S. In Italy, the Catholic Church is the established church and can thus afford a certain lenience; in the religiously libertarian U.S., the church feels it must fight for its rights and be vigilant against all slurs...
...idea of Commentary, says Editor Cohen, was "not to tell people what to think but to give them the material to think with." It is "libertarian," but against the "liberal cliches and stereotypes which pass as a substitute for thinking." One cliche Commentary most strongly opposed from the beginning: that there was a vast difference between the totalitarianism of the Russians and the Nazis...
...Philip P. Hannah, secretary-treasurer of the Ohio A.F.L., followed through with a strong speech for withholding U.S. technical and financial aid from countries which limited political and industrial freedom. "We do not care," said Hannah, "whether a sister country's regime is conservative, liberal, democratic, socialistic, oligarchic, libertarian or collectivism We only ask that it grant . . . that wide range of freedom which is associated with true civilization itself...
...Libertarian Baldwin right? Many a U.S. citizen wished he were surer.*By now the U.S. was pretty well convinced, on the evidence, that all Communists in a democracy are potential spies and traitors; but the U.S. was still doggedly determined not to treat even a known Communist as a spy or a traitor until he was caught redhanded. That frame of mind was doubtless a source of grim amusement to Communists, who are logical people...
Dependent peoples everywhere in the world were stirring, seeking self-government. Those under U.S. rule were no exception. Last week, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug fanned libertarian fires across the Pacific. For Guam, Samoa and the former Japanese mandates he urged civil administration (under his own department) instead of Navy rule, as a first step toward self-government...