Word: blanshard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COMMUNISM, DEMOCRACY AND CATHOLIC POWER (340 pp.)-Paul Blanshard- fleacon...
...Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican. It is hard to say which one makes his hackles rise higher, but each time he claws at Stalin he manages to scratch the Pope. His 1949 bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (168,000 copies) painted a terrifying picture of a totalitarian church at war with U.S. democracy. His new one is Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. It enlarges on and reiterates his earlier theme, but something new is added: the Kremlin and the Vatican are really quarreling brothers under...
...others are: Sydney E. Ahleirom 5G, Harold Amos 4G, Rufus A. Blanshard 5G, James S. Coleman 4G, Edward L. Daugherty 3G, James H. Eliott 3G, Deno J. Geanakoplos...
Ryan's letter concluded by censuring the Syracuse paper, the Daily Orange, for slanting their report of his views and involving the Catholic Church. He said that anti-Catholic sentiments were "the order of the day" on the campus, and that Paul Blanshard's "American Freedom and Catholic Power" was "more quoted than the Bible...
Catholic population, the papers are equally careful not to print any news which might offend the church, even though top Boston newsmen know of no instances where it has tried to exert pressure on the newspapers. Nevertheless, such stories as the debate between Paul Blanshard and Father George H. Dunne at Harvard in February over the political power of the church are virtually ignored (only the Globe printed a story on the debate). Such sacred cows, real or fancied, tend to blunt the nose-for-news of even the best reporters...