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...have shed my last tear (crocodile excepted) for those Catholic martyrs who have suffered and died at the hands of the Chinese Communists. With only few minor changes, Cardinal Ottaviani's smug explanation for Protestant suppression in Italy and Spain might well have been used for the Chinese Communist persecution of Catholic priests...
...committee." But "while we deal with these issues among ourselves," he feels it should be admitted that there has been "a very considerable Marxist dogmatism in the 'liberal' wing of the Protestant churches." Niebuhr says that he and others used some Marxist doctrines as weapons against the smug, optimistic, individualistic form of Christianity the U.S. had inherited from the 19th century, and against certain economic injustices that happened under capitalism. But, he now acknowledges, 'those of us who were critical of capitalism were ... too uncritical of the Marxist alternative." This was true, says Niebuhr, even of those...
...decision to throw all their votes against him. His long-time allies of the center, the Liberals, Social Democrats and Republicans, would not give him even one of their 38 votes. The Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni and their friends the Communists sat in the Chamber of Deputies behind smug smiles of triumph. "Italy." said owlish Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti placidly, "will certainly and inevitably pass through the Communist experience...
City officials in the front row almost winced before the tensed, gesticulating hands of the 38-year-old Jesuit. His voice dramatically softened: "It is not the church's job to solve all the questions of society. But we do exhort you to a crusade against passiveness and smug satisfaction." A pause, then the loudspeakers fairly rattled: "Against this and the bit of social swine that lies...
...Communist Party. Such advice if followed would surely vitiate the principle of permanent tenure. it could only increase the already alarming timidity of scholars to make known the fruits of their study, to teach and arrive at the truth as they find it, and to leaven the often smug hump of American complacency. It is insidious enough to deprive pedagogues unjustly of the nation's confidence; to annihilate them by destroying tenure, the foundation of academic freedom, is even worse...