Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holland's biggest political question was: Would the Catholics now join the Party of Labor (which had explicitly renounced Marxism) in a coalition government to continue the Schermerhorn government's state planning in Holland, or would they form a government with the remnants of the Protestant parties?
A prewar Dutch election was usually a cut-&-dried affair; the Catholics voted for the Catholic party, the Protestants voted for one of the two big Protestant parties, minor groups shared scattered votes, and that was that.
Biggest vote was polled by the middle-of-the-road Catholic People's Party, which won 32 seats. Four Protestant parties were reduced to a total of 23 seats.
...Protestantism there is a great movement back to orthodoxy and away from humanism; and in some of the Protestant churches there is a marked movement toward a higher view of the church and the sacraments...
Roman Catholic aloofness toward the church unity movement, predicted Manning, "may change, as many members of that communion hope and believe it will." Manning himself was as aloof as ever toward the often-proposed merger of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. Said he: "If the Episcopal Church were to abandon...