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Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
...many innocent people, but with the good grain he had also burned the chaff of the old Bolshevik Party, the chief challenge to his power. He himself slept well. The new generation of party members, which he set about recruiting and educating, were functionaries, meek & mild bureaucrats, with a mortal fear in their bowels...
...full of crooks and grafters ... I resigned not as a millionaire but as a poor man." Although he still wore the label of the Liberal Party, his resignation made him a leading candidate to oppose Liberal Quirino on the ticket of the opposition Nacionalista Party. Leader Jose Laurel, a mortal political enemy of Elpidio Quirino, has already renounced his own ambitions for the nomination, if Magsaysay would run, and renewed his pledge last week: "I launched the candidacy of Ramon Magsaysay," said he, "and personally am committed to support his candidacy...
Author Paul Blanshard (American Freedom and Catholic Power) has written with some vehemence that the Roman Catholic Church is a mortal foe of democracy in the U.S. and elsewhere. Six months ago, he went to Dublin for some field research, to see how the people of the Irish Republic (90% of them Catholics) could have managed to keep a democratic government for the last 30 years. From his headquarters in a flat on Dublin's fashionable Fitzwilliam Street, he discussed the question long and earnestly with politicians, journalists and churchmen, both Catholic and Protestant...
...before, because it's a setup the whole country is familiar with." Then he adds with a thoughtful air: "I will inevitably do a complete massacre. The only way I can do a thorough job is with the gloves off. It's so easy to make a mortal enemy if you run a comic strip...