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...Scandals oppress me. Misery of mind and flesh bow me down; with cries of woe I bring my days...
...Castro-admiring magazine Bohemia ran a section titled "What the Soviet Exposition Does not Show," included in it: "The powerful military apparatus to oppress the people, the extremely low level of the popular classes, the crimes of Hungary," The old Auténtico Party, once Cuba's strongest, sensed an issue; in its first public declaration of the Castro era, the party raised what it called "the anti-Communist banner...
...labor-union curbs being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, thundered Lewis, are nothing more than a plot to oppress the poor laboring man: North Carolina Representative Graham Barden's reform bill is "88 pages of misery," and the mild Kennedy reform bill (TIME, May 4) is "66 pages of misery that is not quite so strong." As for Senator John McClellan's investigation of labor-management racketeering, it marked "a re-establishment of the principle of the Star Chamber of the Tudor and Stuart kings, with a slight touch of the Spanish Inquisition...
...white to be slaves." ¶"We would be glad to hear Mr. Eisenhower suggest to the Soviet Union that it join hands with the Americans to fight imperialism. Mr. Eisenhower could not do so because America also is now a state which wishes to have colonies, to oppress and exploit...
PHILIPPINES (19 million Christians). Chief troubles besetting the estimated 2,000,000 Protestants are about 17 million Roman Catholics, whose priests, says Gill, oppress the people and oppose the growth of Protestantism with intimidation and physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions...