Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predominantly Protestant counties are still called in Southern Ireland. Eire's government, which has long espoused a diplomatic solution for partition, has outlawed the I.R.A. and even forbids Ireland's press to carry its name. Since 1956 the Roman Catholic Church has treated I.R.A. membership as a mortal sin. The cause has been hurt by a decline in the "tolerant sympathy" of Irish-Americans, whose dollars largely financed the rebels. Eire's President Eamon ("The Long Fella") de Valera, a legendary hero of the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, once pledged to make "Ireland...
...Mortal Sin. As Prime Minister from 1955 till 1958, Mintoff advocated policies that Malta's Archbishop, Sir Michael Gonzi, feared would limit the church's control over education, religion and family life. Gonzi protested the importation of badly needed teachers because many were non-Maltese Catholics ("They are born and bred in a Protestant atmosphere, and can never become perfect Catholics...
...casino and censured bikinis as immodest. Finally, left-leaning Mintoff threatened to seek economic aid from neutralist Egypt or Communist Yugoslavia. For "grave offenses against ecclesiastical authorities," the Archbishop put the Labor Party's entire leadership under interdict (denying them confession, communion or consecrated burial), made it a mortal sin for a Catholic to support the Socialists...
First, Salan and his lieutenants believe that what is being tested in Algeria is not the right of peoples to self-determination, but the will of the West--or at least France--to defend itself against its mortal enemies. The O.A.S. unabashedly calls the Algerian fellaghas the enemies of the West, just as the Communists are. There is a strong racist strain in their position, of which they are not ashamed. They believe that the Communists, though espousing the nationalist cause of all the great unwashed of the colonial world, regard their "dirty little brothers" with scorn...
...military as more than just a combat machine. They respected it as a combination of power and ideology. The close connection between French politics and the French armed forces was encouraged, even after the disaster of 1870, when it first became evident that both had suffered a near-mortal decline. Indeed, after Sedan, French militarism developed the assertiveness that the fear of weakness produces; and the Army's hold on the popular imagination was not destroyed even by its defeat in the Dreyfus Affair...