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...fact a total crisis -religious, moral, intellectual, social, political, economic. It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis...
...intensified Catholic pro gram for parochial schools, Cardinal Spellman's controversy with Mrs. Roosevelt in which he denounced her for bigotry, Harry Truman's designation of General Clark as ambassador to the Vatican. The Clark appointment, says Bernstein, "was both, a cause of antagonism and a clear symptom of it. Catholics were not aware of the in tensity of Protestant feeling until the President's announcement released a storm . . ." His advice: "First, a word to the Catholics. It seems that Catholics generally do not realize the offensiveness to non-Catholics of the church's claim...
Faded Glamour. The unpleasant truth seemed to be that the stay-downers were a symptom of a whole complex of problems. For one thing, flying has become so commonplace that the call of the wide blue yonder has lost some of its appeal to the nation's youth. This year, for the first time, fewer than the allowable 25% of the graduating classes at West Point and Annapolis volunteered for flying training...
...sense, President Truman's offer had the defect of all proposals for disarmament or arms limitation: it attacked the symptom rather than the disease. Yet in an atomic age, any fundamental plan for international security is bound to include arms limitation and international inspection...
...thought it heard war cries from across the Atlantic, and it didn't like them. What alarmed the leftish (but non-Communist), highbrow weekly was Collier's fictional account of World War III (TIME, Oct. 29). L'Observateur diagnosed the Collier's issue as a symptom of a general U.S. psychoneurosis, lampooned the Collier's act, showed Russia winning World War III. L'Ob-servateur's most striking illustration: a drawing of General Eisenhower surrendering to a Russian officer. Said I'Observateur: Collier's "rendered a great service" in revealing...