Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the U. S., turned in the raincheck, came out from behind their false whiskers, and announced that they had just been fooling: they want their revolution after all. The new Communist name for revolution is "quick transition...
Declaring that "many turn their gaze with renewed hope to the Church, the rock of truth and of charity," Pius XII nevertheless took note that, to many, the precepts of the Church are "an object of suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous...
...Nothing could prove more strikingly than knitting woman's devotion to the small things. . . . To see a knitter adding a few stitches between stops in a train or omnibus, purling two or casting off between glimpses of Mr. Cooper and Miss Colbert on the screen-this is an object lesson in concentration and in kindly devotion...
...opinion" he said, "the events of September, 1938, at Munich, resulted in a terribly suspicious attitude of the Soviet rulers towards England and France. Governing circles in Moscow felt that Russia was actually given over to Hitler as an object for further annexation...
...object, however, to TIME magazine's sentence, which the uninformed could read as implying a Bergen-McCarthy relationship between the News and Vandenberg, or, for that matter, vice versa. We are all fallible, but TIME magazine too often is both fallible and-well, call it carefree in its handling of facts...