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...greatest constitutional crises the country has ever faced," said the American Bar Association, and argued that the Bricker Amendment should be passed to protect the Union from dire peril...
Stevenson had criticized the proposed work of the special assistant to the Attorney-General, who is supposed to keep special records on state employees and find "reasonable doubt" as to their loyalty. Such activity, he said, might "lead to grave peril to the reputations of innocent people...
...Expedit decree (it is not expedient), a Catholic could "neither elector nor elected" be; Pius deemed it a surrender for Catholics to join in the affairs of the determinedly anti-church regime, which had shorn, the Vatican of property and political authority in Italy. But as the political peril to religion developed on the left, the ban slowly relaxed. At the end of World War I, a scholarly Sicilian priest named Luigi Sturzo persuaded Pope Benedict XV to let him form a political party of Catholic laymen. Don Luigi promised that he would resolutely avoid church control, and he kept...
...week Romulo announced that he had resigned his diplomatic jobs and would battle President Quirino for the Liberals' presidential nomination. He was running, said his letter of resignation, because "political confusion, social decay, and a noticeably growing lack of public confidence in government have created a . . . grave national peril." Replied Quirino the next day: "I have decided for the nomination and I shall get it." Countered Romulo, no longer polite to his former boss: "This is the Führer speaking...
...Capitol Hill, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned that "all of Southeast Asia is today in great peril, and if Indo-China should be lost there would be a chain reaction throughout the Far East ..." Treasury Secretary George Humphrey spoke adamantly against any cuts in the program and, in the process, dashed hopes for a balanced budget: "I am distressed that we cannot balance the budget this year . . . the risks that would involve in our security would simply be too great . . ." Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, JCS Chairman Omar Bradley and MSA Director Harold Stassen echoed the Administration argument...