Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...VATICAN Gittsto Caesar...
Although the patrician Boston Symphony, one of the world's three or four greatest orchestras, sounds sweet to most U. S. citizens, it grates on the ears of James Caesar Petrillo, new boss of the American Federation of Musicians. For the Boston Symphony is the only big nonunion orchestra in the U. S. Because of the A. F. of M. hold on the radio chains, the Boston Symphony has not broadcast in more than a year. Last fortnight tough Boss Petrillo forbade RCA Victor to make any more Boston Symphony recordings. "They're through," explained Mr. Petrillo...
...Pope & Caesar. To the Catholic Church such declarations are merely the passing contradictions of mundane affairs. In world affairs the policy of the Vatican has long been guided by two main principles...
...Vatican in return agreed to appoint only bishops acceptable to Portugal, to regulate missionary activities in the Portuguese colonies, added that "the Church . . . does not propose to take over or even to protect any function that belongs to Caesar, whoever he may be." New Problems. Both for the Catholic Church and for the democracies the continuation of this policy, if fascism makes good its hold on Europe, promised to raise new difficulties. To a Catholic-Fascist-Latin bloc-such as might eventually be formed by Italy, Spain, Petain's France and Portugal-the Church could...
When the single-party idea gathered momentum two months ago, this unanswerable man was approached. At first he was reluctant to undertake its leadership, but, as when Caesar turned down the crown, reluctance only teased and whetted those who offered it. They became insistent. He had reservations. He refused to build a party which would obey the Army. He refused to consider forming a party which would merely be a combination of the old corrupt parties; that, he said, would be as futile as "the taking away of the partitions and the paper doors between the rooms of a Japanese...