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Hughes points out that Army, Church and Falange stood together in the civil war, and that, therefore, any democratic opposition based on the origin of the Franco regime merely reminds these three very different forces of what they have in common. Democratic action against the Spanish Government based on its present practices might have the effect of widening the split between Army, Church and Falange. As long as the three institutions support Franco, the Spanish people (80% of whom Hughes marks down as opposing the regime) has little chance of liberation. Hughes's first book, The Church...
...Communists were ready to spring one strike after the other. Ramadier's fate-and France's-hung on whether he could water down the flaming disunity that had its origin in hunger...
...feudal times Japan's Eta were a semi-slave class of undetermined origin entrusted with the tanning, butchering of animals and other traditionally degrading tasks. Although legal restrictions against them were removed in 1871, Japan's 3,000,000 Eta are still social outcasts, generally live by themselves in ghettolike settlements...
...implement this objective we shall cooperate with and help build the labor movement, as we consider it to be the most progressive force in American life. We shall at all times oppose discrimination in any from, whether of color, national origin, religion, political belief, or sex, and we shall fight against fascism wherever it may manifest itself. We shall give our full support to the development of unity among all countries, especially the Great Powers, for without such unity the United Nations can never be an effective instrument for the preservation of world peace...
Many a Republican was growing restive over the implications of the Truman Doctrine-if only because it bore the name of the Democrat's 1948 presidential candidate. Last week the origin of the doctrine, the aid-to-Greece-and-Turkey bill, arrived on the floor of the House. The G.O.P. made it plain that every man would vote for himself. The result: four days of shrill and contentious debate which reminded observers of nothing so much as the lurid neutrality fight...