Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...letter of the law did not give much choice. It banned any alien who "at any time" had been "affiliated" with any "section, branch, affiliate, or subdivision" of any "totalitarian party." Under Hitler, nearly every youth was forced to join one or another of the Hitler Youth organizations; nearly every man who worked for a living had to belong to a Nazi-dominated labor union. In Italy, every school was a Fascist school. Officials estimated that the new law would exclude 90% of all Germans, more than half of all Italians. It would bar all repentant Communists, interfere with trade...
...this kind of propaganda that the West must counter, and to do so necessitates a readjustment of Western techniques. A campaign such as the Crusade for Freedom may seem alien to Western diplomacy, which has traditionally relied on Top-level negotiation rather than mass appeals. But in the present crisis we must measure propaganda by its effectiveness, not by its familiarity. Millions of Americans signing the Freedom Scroll will give now volume to the Voice of America, as well as needed propaganda material to American information centers abroad...
...young ex-bomber pilot who cast off his citizenship in 1948 to become a "citizen of the world" got a chill welcome home from the Government. Davis, who re-entered the U.S. last April under the French quota as "a stateless person," will be treated like any other alien married to an American, the Justice Department said-meaning that he will have to wait two years before he can get his citizenship...
...that this is an especially terrible war. It is so for reasons which every American must understand if we are to grasp the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problem in Asia. Much of this war is alien to the American tradition and shocking to the American mind. For our men in Korea are waging this war as they are forced to wage it and as they will be forced to wage any war against the Communists anywhere in Asia...
...from Japan, a woman from Germany exclaimed: "I just couldn't pray properly before such a thing!" Since a Japanese might have equal difficulty at a Gothic altar rail, the objection pretty well illustrated Monsignor Costantini's point: that native art may serve faith better than the alien kind...