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...family), Gottwald had worked and waited for this moment. There was no doubt about how the new tenant would like to run things. Communist Gottwald's philosophy of politics might well have been inspired by the words of St. Clement (Rome's fourth Pope), after whom his pious family had named him: "Discipline and subordination are necessary as in an army . . . for man is nothing...
...labor's turn to exert pressure for another veto. It was too soon for pious talk of peace...
...professor at Columbia, has often said that he is against all forms of totalitarianism. Nevertheless, in his Wartime Mission in Spain (published in English last year), Hayes could make a choice of evils. He took the view that Russia, being both totalitarian and pagan, was worse than totalitarian but pious Spain, and that Franco's regime was not as bad as friends of Russia made out. Much of his comment was distinctly unflattering to Franco, however, and he insisted that his text be strictly followed in the translation. It was, except for the circumlocution of one word, "gangster" (which...
...start, Ricardo was a better sort of man than most of his fellow colonists. To these rough, tough Spaniards, many of whom had fought as conquistadors, brutal subjugation of the Indians seemed the obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor authorized his emissary...
...grandfather, an old prospector who still hoped to strike it rich in the Colorado hills and spent much of his free time dosing himself with quinine, calomel and the secret remedies of one Gun Wa, a Chinese doctor. Most important of all, Gene had a grandmother, a pious, masterful woman whose hair had once been admired by General Lew Wallace...