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...Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy Father might show himself were mostly women and children...
Immediately Laborites & Liberals comprising His Majesty's Loyal Opposition introduced a motion that "This House . . . has no confidence in His Majesty's Ministers whose unworthy and outrageous foreign policy has largely contributed to the present state of world unrest." No one in the House last week thought this motion could succeed against Squire Baldwin's solid majority of Conservative...
...editorial in question, "Unrest at the Universities," continues to say, that when a teacher of a university becomes involved in a labor or political quarrel, he "brings the university into the limelight with himself", and publicity presents himself as an "agitator...
...Bishop Ryan has been a restless Rector. . . . Bishop Ryan's unrest was in no small measure due to the fact that the fields of thought closest to the lives of our people-philosophy, psychology, sociology-seemed most alien to Catholic influence...
...Liberty, originally a mechanics' society, urging demonstrations, boycotts, violence, to force changes in British laws that blocked colonial enterprise. Although concessions were granted in 1770, wealthy merchants were not won over to the idea of independence, preferred the handicaps of British rule to the dangers of widespread unrest for which the mechanics were responsible. Consequently, "the middle class radicals, among them Samuel Adams, deliberately excluded mechanics from the revolutionary councils and destroyed the Sons of Liberty." Yet their achievement was progressive despite such double-dealing: "Untiringly and systematically, with a rare understanding of revolutionary strategy and tactics, the middle...