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...insights of Thomas Aquinas. Maritain was a fresh and life-giving force within Catholicism during the '30s and '40s, most notably in his defense of political democracy against the charms of fascism (Paul, in his years of service with the Vatican Secretariat of State, strongly opposed Mussolini). Since the Second Vatican Council, however, Maritain has turned his back on any kind of theological or philosophical progress. So has Paul. Some Vatican officials date the increasingly negative tone of Paul's speeches from the publication two years ago of The Peasant of the Garonne, in which Maritain railed...
...political and moral crises persuaded him that Russian-dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story of an idealist's struggle against Mussolini. It ranks with Malraux's Man's Fate and Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
California. Alan Cranston shaped his liberal leanings at the front, reporting on the activities of Mussolini's legions in Ethiopia. After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council. In 1958 he became California's first Democratic Controller in 72 years. A former Stanford track star, Cranston, 54, easily ran past his Republican opponent, the state's fustian Superintendent of Public Instruction, Max Rafferty...
...liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed, harbored at least one genuine reactionary. Described by Luce as a man with the viewpoint of an "18th century gentleman," Laird Goldsborough served for 13 years as Foreign News editor. Devoted to property and royalty, he took Mussolini's side in the Ethiopian war During the Spanish Civil War, he characterized the Loyalists in TIME as a regime of "Socialists, Communists and rattlebrained Liberals that had emptied the jails of cutthroats to defend itself...
...zeroes in on the President: "Texas produced some great men: Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin and Lyndon Johnson. Two out of three isn't bad." And the once risky subjects of race, religion and nationality are treated just as irreverently. "Who put the last seven bullets into Mussolini? Three hundred Italian sharpshooters...