Word: civility
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cavalryman Budenny had been a hero of the civil war of 1918-21, but not much had been seen or heard of him since 1941 when the Nazis plowed through the armies under his command. Why had the Kremlin rulers decided to remove Budenny and his massive mustaches from naphthalene powder (Russian equivalent of mothballs)? Best guess: Budenny symbolized patriotism as distinguished from Communism, and the Kremlin was again whipping up the love of the fatherland which had so heroically stirred Russia in 1941-45. To the troops in Red Square Budenny roared...
...them. Somehow the nation must provide the manpower and the skills over a long period both for a large army and for its civilian needs. This is why the present draft program soon must be replaced by a long-range plan, one which will balance off the needs of civil professions and the military...
...what that effect has been and is depends the state of our civil liberties. This is what the politicians--and everyone else--should worry most about for the next two years...
Protestantism in Spain, he emphasizes, is not a foreign faith, but is solidly Spanish and loyally so. "I think there could be no greater mistake than to suppose that Spanish Protestants constitute any kind of focus of revolt against the present regime, even though . . . they favor a kind of civil and religious liberty which is wholly alien to its program...
Every Protestant pastor to whom Garrison talked told him of gains; e.g., one of Madrid's larger congregations reported its membership had tripled since the end of the civil war nearly twelve years ago. Church services everywhere seemed to be attended almost to capacity. One of the chief reasons for this growth, thinks Garrison, is that the government prohibition of church publicity makes laymen more zealous in bringing others into the church. "There isn't a preacher in America who wouldn't rather have his laymen . . . constantly cover the neighborhood with quiet personal invitations to church than...