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...apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence of the Church may be on the whole harmful. I do not feel I can give it my active support. 16 The Church is a stronghold of much that is unwhole-some and dangerous to human welfare. As far as I am concerned, the sooner its influence declines, the better...
...crumbling ruins, Maclean recognized a deliberate Communist policy. Because the powerful mullahs of this age-old Mohammedan stronghold had resisted Sovietization, the city had been sealed off and left...
...apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence of the Church may be on the whole harmful. I do not feel I can give it may active support. 16 The Church is a stronghold of much that is unwhole-some and dangerous to human welfare. As far as I am concerned, the sooner its influence declines, the better...
...desk on the day his Berlin ultimatum expired. But why else had he flown off to Albania? Rome's Communist L'Unitá volunteered one explanation: "The West should realize that if Khrushchev is hot, he can take a cooling swim in the Adriatic. The Socialist stronghold, which extends from the Elbe to the Red River of Viet Nam, also reaches from the Bering Strait to the Adriatic." Khrushchev himself, who did not go swimming, as usual put his presence to use. Barreling through Europe's wildest and remotest mountain valleys, he saluted the sinewy Albanians...
...schools, and that they partake very little in the benefits of the tax system of the state of Massachusetts. But more than that, they argue, this is a matter of principle. It is, in fact, taxation without representation. What we fought against in '76 has reappeared here, in this stronghold of liberty...