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Malvern was revolutionary only in the sense that it recognized the existence of a social revolution. The problem was as plain as hunger. The world over, the masses must be provided with food, clothing, work. To provide these necessities was a duty no Christian might shirk. Not to provide them was an incitement to civil war. For, unlike Bolshevism or Fascism, Malvern's revolution did not glorify the impersonal power politics of the war of classes or the iron economic laws against whose predestined operation there can be only abject, unconditional surrender. Its proper subject was not Political...
...shirk this opportunity is to invite defeat. To seize upon it will be to pave the way to victory by showing all mankind that the United Nations can translate freedom into creative action and can plan now, by democratic means, for the free world of the future...
...Archbishops of Canterbury is just across the Thames from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. "It is the business of Lambeth," said Dr. Temple at Malvern last year, "to remind Westminster of its responsibilities to God." Now that he occupies Lambeth, he is not likely to shirk that task...
...conference's close, bumbling Alben Barkley told newsmen that the Administration would go after Congressional approval of a resolution for extending the service term, added: "When the need for legislation becomes apparent I believe Congress will in no way shirk its duty...
...That were to shirk...