Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least one death and a total of 1,200 injured, the strikers still held some of the West sector stations, but the Red railway administration, which by then had run in hundreds of strikebreakers and guards, seemed in no mood to give in to their demands. Said Union Official Christian Hanebuth: "We cannot fight on physically against their guns." But next day, 3,000 strikers and their sympathizers went right on fighting, tried to storm the railway station at the Berlin Zoo. Communist police fired on them, killing a 16-year-old boy. British authorities sharply demanded the withdrawal...
...present hope of the great catch which seemed within its grasp a little more than a year ago. Then it had threatened to sweep the national elections and engulf democracy. Now it was in retreat, fighting guerrilla actions, terrorizing farmhands, harassing production, sniping at the Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi...
...right of correction," a signatory country that feels a correspondent has distorted the news can send its own version to his government, which must release the correction to all news agencies but may not require its publication. All in all, U.S. Delegate Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, thought the treaty a beginning step that would strengthen "agreed principles based on the right of the people to know...
Peering into the future, Dr. Barnes said he had no doubt that the religion of tomorrow would be "a form of Christianity." But there would be significant differences. At present "in most European countries the Christian church finds itself allied with the landlords, capitalists and the prosperous bourgeoisie. The alliance is unlikely to be permanent, and when it ceases, a much-modified communism, supported by Christian sympathy, might easily emerge...
Unchristian Idea. McIntire seldom misses an opportunity to embarrass and harass his opponent. A few days before the Assembly of the World Council of Churches met at Amsterdam last August, McIntire was in Amsterdam holding his own meeting of the "International Council of Christian Churches." Whenever he could get startled reporters to listen, he fulminated that the leaders of the World Council "include radical pacifists and socialists . . . This assembly is going to serve Communist ends." On such occasions, the American Council's impressive-sounding name often wins attention...