Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin America who clung consistently to the view that the democracies would win World War II. Nor can I subscribe to the implication that Juan Lechin, the Minister of Mines, is a radical . . . Nevertheless, the entire story shows clearly that the Bolivian situation was approached objectively, and that an attempt was made to get at the facts and to appraise them without bias. Consequently, I cannot object to some of your fundamental conclusions...
...faith which the trials are intended to spread has for its object neither the testimony of the victims nor the doctrine of the masters, but the omnipotence of a party which must [be made to] seem stronger than truth itself...
Third, and most dangerous, there is the "pseudo-divinity of the modern state . . . a divinity thrust upon it by masses of insecure and frustrated people, insistently demanding some powerful and venerable object of faith and trust." Author Casserley compares the modern revolutionary movements to "the more discreditable phases of church history." Their symptoms: "A minute and hairsplitting dogmatism enthusiastically engaged upon for its own sake: the persecution of deviant shades of opinion; an enthusiastic cult of the [human] savior...
...Object Matrimony. The high tide of immigration ebbed with the passage of the Johnson Act in 1924, but the Alliance went on. Financed almost entirely by New York's Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, it now runs a pre-kindergarten and summer camps. During the school term, the settlement house is still the best place for the kids to spend their leisure time. So popular is the Alliance, even among East Side roughnecks, that a threat to cut off membership is usually enough to keep young toughs in line. Seldom does a teen-age gang need what Director Murray calls...
...problem which his Frenchness told him was closest to the center of France's illness. André Siegfried once remarked of the petit bourgeois that "his heart is on the left, but his pocketbook is on the right." Pinay built his policy as Premier around one object-the Frenchman's pocketbook...