Word: martyrizing
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...influence of the reactionary clergy must be stamped out," the Commu nist Central Committee announced this month. The Titoists think their attitude toward "mysticism" has been shrewdly re strained. "Our policy toward the church has been proved right," boasted Milovan Djilas, Minister Without Portfolio. "We have not made a martyr of her." What Djilas meant was that a paper right of worship has been left in Yugoslavia, and that this serves to camouflage persecution of the church...
...Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...IMPOSE GUILT ON THIS INNOCENT MAN, AS AGAINST THE 169 DAYS ALLOWED IN JUDGE MEDINA'S COURT TO OVERTHROW THE LEGAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND IMPOSE GUILT ON GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS: "THE PROPHET AND THE MARTYR DO NOT SEE THE HOOTING THRONG. THEIR EYES ARE FIXED ON THE ETERNITIES." ALL AMERICA SHOULD HONOR JUDGE MEDINA FOR GIVING THE HOOTING COMMUNISTS AN EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN JUSTICE, DIGNITY AND PATIENCE...
...sincerely hoping that none but the Mennonites waste sympathy on a man of such caliber as Larry Gara. In refusing to register during World War II he was but definitely a lawbreaker . . . Let him continue being a martyr and cheerfully spend most of his life as a do-nothing in prison...
...Even if you cannot find it within your heart to defend the rights of innocent little children and heroic, helpless men like Cardinal Martyr Mindszenty* can you not have the charity not to cast upon them still another stone...