Word: concordat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the Conservative candidate has been his party's unchallenged boss. He is credited with having driven three Presidents from office, two Conservatives and one Liberal. A reactionary Roman Catholic, he scourged the Vatican for signing a concordat with a Liberal government in 1942. In World War II he damned the U.S. as "pagan," plumped for the Axis until he saw that it was losing...
...concordat between Moscow and the Vatican...
...asked more rights for labor. Pumping away with his right arm, he attacked the Marxism of Acción Democrática, called for "social peace" to replace the class struggle. Caldera, whose party has church support (it accuses Acción of being anti-Catholic), plumped for a concordat that would abolish the state's present right to approve church appointments...
...newspaper, El Siglo, property of Colombia's most choleric orator, Laureano Gómez (who went into self-imposed exile following the Presidential abduction last summer), roared that "arrests of clergymen violated the Concordat with the Vatican." But the rest of the press saved its condemnation for the plotters...
...Concordat with Hitler "in spite of many serious misgivings...