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...Faith. During the generation in which we are by isolation helping the Russian state to wither away, we must find an alternative faith for the West. In a complicated world, the Russians have a simple and active faith; they have something to offer, and we have not. At present the only faiths available to compete with Communism are Catholicism and Fascism, which explains the special virulence of the Russians against them; but neither of these is likely to unite the West. There must be a genuine counter-reformation of the West...
...Digest's size. They started to talk about refusing reprint privileges. Wallace soothed the grumbling magazines by agreeing to pay fat annual fees for reprint rights, in addition to paying for each article used. Imitators of the Digest sprang up by the score-many to wither after one season...
...Puritan contemporaries, Williams was tolerant of those who did not believe as he did.* His Christian always turned the other cheek: "How quietly, without the swellings of revenge and wrath, should we bear the daily injuries, reproaches, persecutings, etc., from the hands of men who pass away and wither (it may be before night) like grass, or as the smoke on the chimney...
...Pentagon intends U.M.T. for some future day when & if standing forces can be eased back to the point (1,500,000) where they can be maintained entirely through the normal ebb & flow of enlistments. At such a point, the current draft would either be repealed or allowed to wither away...
...winning of freedom is not to be compared to the winning of a game-with victory recorded forever . . . Freedom . . . must be daily earned and refreshed-else ... it will wither...