Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Kluckhohn denied neither the "historical authenticity of Christ nor the existence of God. But he criticized Christianity for posing its dogma as the single truth, for the effort of its missionaries to impose alien values on non-Christian societies, and for "barbarism and destruction unmatched" by any nation...
...opinion was delivered in the case of Sei Fujii, a sad-faced little Japanese who had bought a piece of Los Angeles real estate, but could not get legal title because of California's Alien Land Act. Under the act-which has been regularly attacked and just as regularly upheld by both state and federal courts for almost 30 years-aliens who are ineligible for citizenship may not own California land. Los Angeles Attorney J. Marion Wright argued that the Alien Land Act conflicted with the Charter of the U.N. The three appeals judges pondered, and decided, in fact...
...Charter (the judges argued), like any other treaty made by the U.S., has become "the supreme law of the land . . . paramount to every law of every state in conflict with it. The Alien Land law must therefore yield to the treaty as the superior authority...
...this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia's crowded, impoverished lands, that brought a determined, rebellious Hunanese peasant and an alien ideology of the West to the overlordship of China's millions...
Present laws for punishing subversive activities, fraud, and violation of alien registration may or may not be adequate. If they are not, then they can be supplemented by other laws aimed directly at these offenders. But when opinions or group membership become the criteria for suppression, we no longer have a democracy to defend...