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...Communism! Having thus as a matter of foreign policy described the Roman Church, once the staunch defender of the divine right of rulers, as an organ of democratic society, Pius XII was at lengthy pains to make plain that by democracy he did not mean Communism: "[The State] should in practice be the organic and organizing unity of a real people. The people and the shapeless multitude (or as it is called the masses) are two distinct concepts. The people lives and moves of its own life energy. . . . The masses, on the contrary, wait for the impulse from outside...
China's Friend. Of all Americans, Joe Stilwell should apparently be persona gratissima to the Chinese. He is a staunch admirer of China, a close friend of her big & little people, a champion of her causes, a student of her culture. He is a rare "old China hand" who knows the language so well that he can think in Chinese-one of that surprisingly large number of Americans who have overcome the barrier of an Asiatic language to become unofficial legates in the high tradition of U.S.-Chinese friendship...
...dead-it must join international economic cartels and make them serve the public interest. This unpopular opinion, directly opposed to that of the Administration,* was expressed in the November Harper's by New Dealing Milo Perkins, onetime executive director of the Board of Economic Warfare and heretofore a staunch advocate of free enterprise...
...candidate for re-election ruled that his own speech was not political." Republicans grabbed up their own adjectives and leaped in. They demanded that the networks give Tom Dewey equal time; they were refused. The Army's about-face even prompted a protest from Franklin Roosevelt's staunch backer, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper. "Let all the candidates be heard by the troops," said-he. "The President will be able to hold...
...provincial premier, he thought the federal Government was milking rich Ontario. Then, a fortnight ago Quebec voted in the Quebec-first Union Nationale Party (TIME, Aug. 21). This means that the two provinces which have roughly two-thirds of Canada's wealth and people are now controlled by staunch States'-rights partisans...