Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Circulated through Norway was a secretly printed manifesto which called imprisoned Eivind Berggrav "more than ever our Bishop and spiritual leader," .roundly declared: "A fight is on, a deadly fight between irreconcilable opponents, between Christians and barbarians, a fight for everything which we love and cherish, against brutality and lawlessness, a fight which will make the Nazi hangmen tremble. . . . The fight of the Norwegian Church is Norway's fight, for the whole of Norway is united behind the Church...
...logically consistent and conclusive synthesis, the work has not succeeded completely. But, by pointing out the fallacies of rigidly channelized study of society, it may serve as a manifesto to rouse the social sciences from their present state of disorder...
...presumed too much. I was about to indite my valedictory; then came your manifesto-Dec. 29 issue-affirming your determination to hold fast to all those virtues for the presumed jettisoning of which I was about to leave...
Last summer 224 British peers and members of Parliament signed a manifesto "that the future citizen should be so molded in character by Christian education that his citizenship shall become the expression of these principles in action." Last month the House of Commons took time off from discussion of the war for a lengthy debate on religious education...
Said a Chamber of Deputies manifesto: "Let us forget our differences of other times with the United States, offering them today our loyal friendship and cooperation with their cause, which is also ours, and the cause of civilization, art and culture." Observed New York Timesman Harold Callender, from Mexico City: ". . . The nearest approach to national unity that the country has experienced since the beginning of the revolution in Francisco I. Madero's time...