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...Protestant counties are still called in Southern Ireland. Eire's government, which has long espoused a diplomatic solution for partition, has outlawed the I.R.A. and even forbids Ireland's press to carry its name. Since 1956 the Roman Catholic Church has treated I.R.A. membership as a mortal sin. The cause has been hurt by a decline in the "tolerant sympathy" of Irish-Americans, whose dollars largely financed the rebels. Eire's President Eamon ("The Long Fella") de Valera, a legendary hero of the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, once pledged to make "Ireland...
...Valli), the woman who loves him, must sympathize with it; the British Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) whose job is to erase it, has to be callous, scheming, and often unjust. Powerfully appealing characters as they are, they appear as agents of Greenes' famous preoccupation with the inescapable sordidness of sin in the modern world...
...Mortal Sin. As Prime Minister from 1955 till 1958, Mintoff advocated policies that Malta's Archbishop, Sir Michael Gonzi, feared would limit the church's control over education, religion and family life. Gonzi protested the importation of badly needed teachers because many were non-Maltese Catholics ("They are born and bred in a Protestant atmosphere, and can never become perfect Catholics...
...censured bikinis as immodest. Finally, left-leaning Mintoff threatened to seek economic aid from neutralist Egypt or Communist Yugoslavia. For "grave offenses against ecclesiastical authorities," the Archbishop put the Labor Party's entire leadership under interdict (denying them confession, communion or consecrated burial), made it a mortal sin for a Catholic to support the Socialists...
...Wages. If Picasso's play is opaque, there is nothing obscure about The Wages of Sin, by U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Playwright Nu has been produced in the U.S. before-his The People Win Through was once presented at the Pasadena Playhouse in California-and U Nu is still pounding away at the same theme: the evil of Communism and how to combat it. The Wages of Sin will be given its U.S. première on the East Carolina campus this week, with a Louisianaborn history professor playing U Po Lone, a Burmese government minister...