Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regret to record these matters," Bishop Oxnam said. "But ... we confront a crisis, now worldwide, in which freedom itself is at stake. The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in religious liberty as we understand it. The Communist Party does not believe in civil liberty as we understand it. When either the Roman Catholic Church or the Communist Party, acting upon its belief in these matters, seeks to deny to us either religious or civil liberty, our own freedom is involved, and it is not a part of tolerance to submit to such denials until at last our freedom passes...
...question of how Christians would meet the revolutionary changes was at the top of the agenda. Notably absent from the conference were six delegates from China, who had been unable to leave Communist-occupied territory because of "visa trouble." South Korean delegates explained that for Christians in Russian-dominated North Korea, the situation is increasingly serious. Numerous pastors, they said, have been forced to flee south, while others have disappeared altogether...
...former FBI agent claimed that there are over 1,000,000 "Communist believers in the country...
Professor Harlow Shapley last night referred to an accusation that he is a prominent Communist-front sympathizer as "just another smear" and added that "these charges don't mean much any more...
Shapley, Paine Professor of Practiced Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, denied his membership in all the Communist organizations named by Huber, but refused to comment further on the accusation...