Word: religionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have included Queen Marie of Rumania, Actress Carole Lombard, Philanthropist Edith Rockefeller McCormick and President Wilson's daughter, Margaret, who, Bahais believe, gave her father twelve of his Fourteen Points straight from the writings of Baha'u'llah. U.S Bahais talk mysteriously of an anonymous fellow religionist high in the State Department, but it is possible that he himself does not know about it. "Anybody who believes in the universal faith is a Bahai, says Insurance Man Ellsworth Blackwell of the U.S. national assembly. "We consider some people Bahais who may neve have heard...
...older, more stubborn and more pervasive division-the division between clerical and anticlerical. It is a division which makes two parties where there could have been one, which splits the non-Communist left into anticlerical Socialists and pro-Catholic M.R.P., the non-Gaullist right into secularist Radical Socialists and religionist Independents...
...marriage of convenience began peacefully enough. Bride and bridegroom agreed that religious differences would be subordinate to foreign affairs (mainly trouble with the Arabs) and a precarious economic position. Ben-Gurion gave the religionist bloc three cabinet posts: Religious Affairs, Social Welfare, Health & Immigration...
...refused when the bloc asked for the newly created ministry of Trade & Economy. For a while the religionist spouse left its government home, then returned when aged President Chaim Weizmann patched things up. Ben-Gurion got a non-partisan minister of Trade & Economy, but had to promise that the government would buy nothing but Kosher meat...