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...international Communist movement . . . would call for a consultative meeting [of the hemisphere's nations] to consider the adoption of measures in accordance with existing treaties." Guatemala, where Reds already run such governmental institutions as social security and the land-reform program, took to itself the role of martyr and chief opposer of the measure. Fewer than 15 favorable votes, delegates agreed, would mean psychological defeat for the U.S.; at midweek, only ten were on record favoring the measure...
...lawyers. Eugenio, a shy and serious child, was early drawn to religion. With candlesticks, tablecloths and saints' pictures begged from his mother, he played at celebrating Mass. Once, when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he answered: "I would like to be a martyr-but without the nails...
...applause from the spectators, all the while admitting that he had been a close friend of at least ten Government workers who had been named as spies. Three days later, at his farm in New Hampshire, White suddenly died of a heart attack. Liberals cried that he was a martyr and used his case as the supreme example of 'witch-hunting...
...suggested that White was fired, or that they believed him to be disloyal. In fact, White, who died on Aug. 16, 1948, apparently of a heart attack, three days after being questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, has been considered in pro-Truman quarters as an innocent martyr to "witch hunters...
...develop a bad conscience about Servetus' execution. "It served," writes Historian Bainton, "as the occasion for the rise in volume and intensity of the toleration controversy within Protestantism." This year John Calvin's old congregation in Geneva has subsidized a study entitled "Michael Servetus, Heretic and Martyr." And at the base of Champel there is now a monument to Servetus, erected in 1903 by local Calvinists-"Sons," as its legend reads, "respectful and grateful of Calvin, our Great Reformer, but condemning an error which was that...