Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this: that without government spending the present upturn would not have come, and that there is still plenty of unemployment to warrant continued government activity. That is not "suppression of the truth." It is not even necessarily prompted by a belief that the economy has hit a period of "secular stagnation," for which "collectivism" is the only solution. It is simply a caution that all is not yet right with the economic system, and that the deceptive Thompson figures should not lead us to cut public activity more rapidly than the business revival justifies. Nine million or two million, there...
...freedom of speech and modern medievalism: If a man "pries into the balance sheet of a great financial corporation and publishes the truth about it, we send him to hard labor without writing materials. We no longer call it heresy. Our secular theologians call it criminal libel...
This pastoral was published in the Ecclesiastical Bulletin of Toledo (Cardinal Coma's see), then released to the secular press. The Spanish censorship (headed by Franco's brother-in-law, Ramon Serrano Suñer) clamped down on it. More over - according to report - the Government forbade the pastoral's reading in the churches...
...doctrinal history of the Communist Party is a best-seller in Russia, just as Hitler's turgid but more interesting Mem Kampf outsells all secular volumes in Germany. He goes in for Nazi-like plebiscites. Hitler won his 1938 election by 99.08% of the voters; Stalin polls 115% in his own Moscow bailiwick. Stalin's photograph became the icon of the new State, whose religion is Communism...