Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Roman Catholic bishopsof Czechoslovakia came to open defiance of the Communist government'snew laws to control and suppress the church (TIME, Nov. 14). In a letter to Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky, the bishops told how they had tried to meet the government at least halfway, had issued "conciliatory directives" telling priests to accept state salaries and take an oath of loyalty to the Red regime. In return, the bishops said, the Communist government had issued new decrees which were "an attack on the organization and life of the church." The bishops' letter concluded: "We cannot...
...political views, for, as Dean Bender said in reporting the Committee's action, "the best evidence that the Faculty Committee had not been moved in its consideration by the well-known Communist affiliations of the H.Y.D. . . . lies in the record of the Committee. If it had wished to suppress the expression of the ideas of the H.Y.D. it would not have recognized the H.Y.D. in the first place...
Father Clarence Duffy, of the Diocese of Kilmore, Eire, who has been in this country speaking on civil rights, said that "no ecclesiastical authority in the United States can suppress me in the fight for Roman freedom, despite what the press has been claiming...
...become the most powerful of the antimalarial police. New drugs are being perfected to replace quinine and wartime atabrine. The ideal drug, says Dr. Warshaw, must cure (not merely suppress) all forms of malaria. It must be easy to make and take, and so cheap that hundreds of millions of men, women & children all over the world...
...remained to be seen what U.N. could do to suppress Mr. Stalin's profession...