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...with the complicity of the Holy See, Mindszenty had plotted against the Hungarian government. But he defended Mindszenty's right to oppose his government on certain measures contradicting "divine and human rights." Said the Pope: "Bishops and the faithful themselves are bound by their own conscience to resist unjust laws...
...most of McDowell's charges are based on technical violations occurring in the 1932-1948 period before he became Commissioner. Every other Commissioner since Dr. Van Waters was appointed fully approved these acts, and it would therefore seem unjust to charge them against her now. If the Grisweld Commission decides that these pre-McDowell acts are relevant, the Commissioner's otherwise puny case will be considerably strengthened, and Dr. Van Waters can be prevented from carrying on her work...
...Fisher said, "had I felt guilty of any one charge levelled against me," he could not have kept up his sequence of wearying refutations. "I am convinced," he added, "that only a person who is certain of the justness of his position can stand up under 34 days of unjust and insincere attack. I have attempted to look upon this situation with a feeling of sympathy toward those men on the Council who hold their positions more important than integrity...
...Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican...
...three of his earlier novels, Cozzens presented the hodgepodge of the medical profession (The Last Adam), the ministry (Men and Brethren), the law (The Just and the Unjust). In Guard of Honor he not only shows again his fine descriptive talents but boldly tangles with two of the toughest subjects of the day-the nature of war, and racial intolerance. Guard of Honor is a big, fat book-much bigger than Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal or Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement-bigger, and far better...