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Military men disagreed. In the military attachés' box, U.S. officers looked approvingly at the businesslike troops, heard murmured appreciation from Western European colleagues. Western officers were interested in an old question: Would the Italians perform as smartly on the battlefield as they did on parade? Consensus was that the quality of Italy's army was far better than Mussolini...
Keyserling pronounced Blough's a "fine appointment." Senator Taft snorted: "The President now has three leftfielders" on his team. The consensus was that Blough, for whatever consolation it might be, plays a mite closer to center field...
Niebuhr notes that the Detroit Conference in the Church & Economic Life (TIME, Feb. 27), which came out in favor of a middle way between socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, confirmed a consensus already established by Protestantism in its conferences at Stockholm (1922), Oxford (1937) and Amsterdam (1948). "This consensus of Protestant thought is the more remarkable," writes Niebuhr, "in that it closely approaches the main emphases in the social teachings of the Catholic encyclicals since Rerum Novarum [1891]. Whatever may be the differences in Catholic and Protestant social policy . . . the similarities are more striking than the differences...
Protestants, says Niebuhr, should beware of denying authority to such a consensus of church thinking. "Protestantism is inclined to vaunt itself because of its liberty, as distinguished from Rome's authoritarianism. We fear that Roman Catholicism deifies the church. [But] does not Protestantism deify the individual conscience to an extent which gives men a sense of security about the 'dictates' of their conscience and no sense of repentance about the mixture of interest and self-seeking in the ideals of conscience...
Five days later Brownie was put down (i.e., released to run) again to demonstrate his ability to freeze into courteous immobility when the dog ahead made a point. The official consensus: "Beautiful." Five-year-old Brownie was crowned the top U.S. bird dog for 1950; Trainer Evans got $1,500 prize money; Owner Livingston received a suitably inscribed gold trophy -and Grand Junction went back to being a whistle stop for another twelve months...