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April 1917. Labor's Arthur Greenwood did the Government no good in a lame reply that was more a confession than a defense. "It is folly to deny that damage has been done to production," said he, "but I say unhesitatingly that it hasn't eaten to any...
"We should recognize the silly bluff for what it is and ignore it," he continued. "Looking at it dispassionately, we can come to one conclusion: The bluff is a confession of fear and weakness, an admission of helpless vulnerability to the things we can do."
It was all a pious exercise. Hecklers and speakers alike were delegates to the ninth annual National Catholic Evidence Conference, which met last week at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. In arguing over confession, extreme unction, miracles, indulgences, purgatory, the Pope, they were demonstrating tactics for open-air meetings from...
With less than a month to go before his inauguration on Dec. i, Avila Camacho's confession of faith has helped to minimize the moral support given to his conservative rival, General Juan Andreu Almazan, by Mexican Catholics.
Like Henry IV, who believed France was worth a Mass, Avila Camacho may have believed that Mexico was worth a confession of faith. But whatever its motive, it was the most reassuring phrase Mexican Catholics had heard in a generation, for it foretold an end to an era of tribulation...