Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organizing their forces to make each candidate in next spring's General Election publicly commit himself for or against their plan. Last week the Labor government made it a sharp issue: Minister of Education George Tomlinson.flatly, rejected the bishops' proposal, and issued a memorandum to Labor Party members explaining why. Questioning the accuracy of the bishops' ?60 million estimate of the Act's cost to Catholics, the memorandum asserted: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy have always aimed at throwing the whole cost of their schools upon public funds, and have not ceased...
...state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had consistently fought against the law; one manifesto, signed by 80% of the country's 7,000 priests, declared it "absolutely unacceptable." A memorandum sent to the government by the Council of Bishops a week after the passage of the law charged that it violated the Czech Republic's constitution (which guarantees freedom of religion and the church's right to administer its own internal affairs), and thus placed the church "outside...
...That took us till 3 in the morning. He read all the papers, said, 'Excellent, excellent,' then talked for 30 minutes tearing them to bits. Then he divided the problem into three parts, gave us each one part, and asked us to go back and write another memorandum. When we turned that in a couple of hours later, he slapped us on the back, took us home to his billet, shouted Madame de Lattre out of bed, had some eggs fried and coffee made for all, then sent us off to sleep. That morning at 9, fresh...
Shortly before Pope Pius XII published the decree, Czech Communists had taken another step in their assault on Prague's Archbishop Beran and his hierarchy. In a memorandum signed by Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky, plans were made to build up a government-controlled national church. Another circular detailed punishments for priests who had read Beran's pastoral letters denouncing Communist persecution of the church. "Finally," said the circular, "we shall accuse [the Catholic hierarchy] directly of high treason...
...second charge was that the big, high-flying B-36 was a sitting duck. Last week the Joint Chiefs of Staff sensibly ruled that there could be "no useful purpose" in staging a duel in public between the B-36 and jet fighters. The memorandum was unwillingly signed by Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, the senior member of the JCS, whose Naval airmen had started all the hullabaloo in the first place...