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...nonpolitical church of his own. Said Pastor Devos: "One thousand political predikants rule behind the scenes, change cabinets at will, control the church." Both church and government leaders consolidate their power through a secret society, the Breeder-bond-Brotherhood. "Their aim," he added, "is a republic which will suppress all resistance and destroy the freedom of all races except a single 'Herrengroup...
...plot thread is woven into an imaginative cinematic pattern of slapstick and social comment. The chemist's discovery alarms both capital & labor, which move to suppress it for fear the delicate balance of the market will be upset. Calm and sanity finally return to the textile industry when the inventor's white suit of miracle cloth falls apart, leaving him standing in the street in shirttails and drawers, a ludicrous and forlorn figure...
...Archbishop of Seville, the 71-year-old cardinal bears down hard on heresy and what he regards as licentious customs. He has managed to suppress Seville's traditional church dancing at Christmas, ban movies accepted in the rest of Spain, and separate men & women at all religious gatherings. Says one critic of Segura: "A saint, had he been born in the 15th century, a bore in the 20th...
...Attempted to suppress freedom of the press...
...five years [we] have lived in the fear of the Russians and from the charity of the Americans," he said. "Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time-decades and decades-to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ... I have been astounded by the amount of talent that has been expended in this Assembly to explain that something could not be done." In particular he attacked Winston Churchill, who more than any man had set the idea of federation to rolling...