Word: democratism
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...some four months will Brazil's busy Supreme Tribunal consider the legality of Brazil's Communist Party. In the meantime, the battle between Dutra and the Communists centers on the still active Communist Congressmen. Only Congress itself can fire them, and Dutra's P.S.D. (Social Democrat Party) cannot muster the two-thirds majority to do it. Moreover, the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union), which has backed Dutra on many an issue, refuses to go along on this one. U.D.N. Chief Jose Americo de Almeida had gone straight to President Dutra at squat Catete Palace and made that...
Many a Republican was growing restive over the implications of the Truman Doctrine-if only because it bore the name of the Democrat's 1948 presidential candidate. Last week the origin of the doctrine, the aid-to-Greece-and-Turkey bill, arrived on the floor of the House. The G.O.P. made it plain that every man would vote for himself. The result: four days of shrill and contentious debate which reminded observers of nothing so much as the lurid neutrality fight...
Interior Minister Mario Scelba (Christian Democrat) reported to his fellow assemblymen that, so far as the police could determine, the Sicilian shooting was nonpolitical. The valley in which it occurred was notoriously infested by bandits. Sicilian Communist Deputy Girolamo Licausi disagreed. He charged that the Maffia (Sicily's ancient, bloody secret society) had perpetrated the attack, in cahoots with monarchists and the rightist Uomo Qualunque Party...
...United States to raise money for the construction of modern schools at his impoverished birthplace. In Boston the Greek Orthodox Cathedral benefits from his generosity. Over a battered desk hangs perhaps his proudest possession, an autographed portrait of Eleutherios Venizelos, until his death in 1935 the towering Greek democrat of this country. Felix does not boast a grasp of political nuances but he holds a simple hatred for the Communists in Greece...
...must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion. Don Vittorio, the landowners and shopkeepers have all canceled their subscriptions to Rome's Christian Democrat daily, now read only Giannini's neo-Fascist II Buonsenso. Grumbled one: "What else can we do now-except join the Communists...