Word: morality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead against them. Giovanni Elken, Jewish secretary of the Christian Democratic Party in Bologna, explained: "Six million of our votes were cast by people who were just antiCommunists. I've even talked to a monarchist who believed that we will restore the monarchy. Yet it is our essential moral duty to bring about reforms that will raise wails from these six millions." Said Father "X," the Milan priest who organized Catholic partisans and kept machine guns in his study last winter (TIME, Dec. 29): "We must be with the workers. They are 'us.' The industrialists and landowners...
...they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism includes victories over these three teams, or whether they only seek a moral victory for the underdog Crimson...
...with a deep moral sense, he is outraged by man's inhumanity to man. The worst tantrum he ever threw was on the day of the Austrian Anschluss. He tried to rehearse, but left the podium after the first minute. He didn't stop raging until he had almost kicked a massive table to pieces, pulled all his scores from their shelves, nearly wrecked his dressing room. Then he sat down and cried...
...political event of recent times was the Vatican's decision, while waiting for the City of God, to fight once more for the City of Man. It had openly entered politics. Italian priests issued a solemn warning: Communism is sin. Could the Communists stand up against such a moral thunderbolt...
...democracy and individual freedom. But we have retained enough freedom for everybody to live and work either happily or contentedly, according to one's political views. And we have retained enough democracy for our state to leave it a possibility of developing into a new, more righteous and more moral democracy. We have learned in these days to look at things with harshly realistic eyes. By an uncontrolled terrible strength ensuing from the contrast of two opposite world ideologies, we were faced with facts which we had either to accept totally or reject totally. Every...