Word: democratism
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...following letter was written on March 14, 1948, by a student at Charles University, a man in his mid-twenties, who is doing advanced work in both English and Russian. He is a Social Democrat. His father, who is a carpenter in a village twenty-five miles from Prague, is a National Socialist. I pass this letter on, not as the whole story in Czechoslovakia, but as a characteristic student opinion. F. O. Matthiessen...
Batista's decision to run for Senator (from Las Villas province) is a hard-headed deal. His name will help the Liberal-Democrat opposition in a doubtful district. For Batista, it is a foot in the Cuban political door. Because most Cubans have forgotten his brutal police methods, remember only that meat & butter were cheaper in his time, Batista is likely to win in a walk without so much as leaving Daytona Beach...
Chavez, a New Deal Democrat, will throw light on the problems of the Mexican-Spanish-Indian population of the Southwest...
...democracy." But in much of the rest of the world, the idea of "let's eat" is the dominant thought in the mind of every human being. When a man's food consumption averages 1,150 calories daily, he is not likely to be a communist or a democrat or an advocate of free speech. He is likely to be nothing but a hungry...
...Pope stood on a balcony beneath the brilliant spring sun. Below him lay the immense Piazza di San Pietro and, in its encircling colonnades, a multitude of more than 350,000 people, who overflowed into the adjoining streets and lined the nearby roofs. Overhead swooped two planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This year of anxiety and peril is the harbinger...