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...side. In 1948, despite the Dixiecrat movement, Harry Truman carried 247 of Texas' 254 counties and won the state by more than half a million votes. Even in Texas, where almost everything is done in a big way, it will take a real political tornado to uproot that many Democrats...
Despite the danger, Camiguenos who have returned home are unwilling to leave. President Quirino, they say, promised them land on Mindanao if they migrated after the last eruption. They found nothing but broken promises. It may take another disaster to uproot them again...
...banners proclaiming "Colombia is Catholic" and "We Will Not Be Robbed of Our Religion." Some of them also heaved stones. Halting directly before the church door, Father Alvarez thanked his followers for their "protestation of faith" and denounced "Protestant millionaires from the U.S. who try to sow disunity and uproot the true faith planted by our forefathers." Then he asked the crowd, about 300 strong, to leave peacefully with...
...heresy of Monophysitism,* the Pope made a strong plea for unity among "all Christians" to throw back "the enemy from Hell." Said Pius XII: "Who is not horrified at the hatred and ferocity with which the God-haters in many parts of the world threaten to stamp out or uproot whatever is divine and Christian? Against this united front, those who are signed with the sacred mark of baptism . . . cannot any longer remain divided and disunited . . . The chains, the sufferings, the torments, the groans, the blood of that immense multitude, known and unknown, who for their . . . Christian faith have suffered...
...Uproot Communism. Members of Nguyen Van Tin's league have to take an oath of allegiance and swear "to search energetically day and night for the means to uproot Communism." Two hundred men of Bai Trang have taken this oath. A hundred and fifty of them are used to protect the village against Communist night raids. Of these, 90 have only clubs and knives, 40 have rifles given by the French, and 20 have sporting rifles bought out of village funds...