Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genuine heroism in behalf of spiritual treasures. There is nothing in the Gospel to justify the Roman Catholic Church's ownership of more than one million acres of land, on which a hundred thousand tenants have been living like medieval serfs. The present government of Hungary stood for social justice and Christian democracy when it took the land away from the feudal bishops and gave it to the freed serfs...
...pamphlet turns around the ordeals of Mr. John Bull, the Third Secretary to Sir Henry Sealingwax, ambassador to mythical Mauretania. To the old ambassadors John Bull is typical of Britain's new crop of appointees now at their first posts abroad. Long on economics, finance and social problems, often with brilliant war records, they are, by such standards as Cheke's, still social roughnecks...
...Henry Sealingwax's reception calls for young Bull's first big show of tact. "One of his chief duties is to be affable to bores." Each official party has important guests "devoid of social graces and who stand around in dreary isolation." Nothing, Cheke affirms, is worse than "dreary individuals standing in gloomy and solitary silence." To save the reception England expects young John Bull to find his tongue and chat...
...Always Swore . . ." The armistice agreement was in large part due to the immense ability, patience, tact and unflagging good humor of Ralph Bunche, Negro social scientist (A.B., University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard) who had taken over the role of martyred Count Folke Bernadotte. Several times during the seven weeks of negotiations, agreement had seemed hopeless. Each time Dr. Bunche had thought of something to keep the talks alive. By last week, the negotiators on both sides had come to regard him as a new colossus of Rhodes...
...elected President of Argentina in 1946, Juan Domingo Perón had two visible means of political support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once...