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...Rome. Cardinal Sapieha, 82, and other Polish churchmen have been pursuing a more cautious policy in Poland than Cardinal Mindszenty adopted in Hungary. Nevertheless, Vatican spokesmen did not believe that the Polish bishops had signed the agreement. Said a Vatican aide: "It is incredible that an agreement of this scope could have been negotiated without Cardinal Sapieha's knowledge. It could be only a dictate." Said another official: "The Communists describe the pact as a modus vivendi-a way of living. Actually, it is a modus morendi-a way of dying...
...wording of loyalty provisions in Congressional bills is not always the some; in some cases the scope is more extensive than in others. On the bill establishing a National Science Foundation which passed the House last week, the proviso was unfortunately more inclusive than most, extending to those who "have been members at any time of any organization declared subversive by the Attorney General." These requirements are even more stringent that the restrictions on Atomic Energy Commission fellowships, which often involve work with classified materials...
...fact is that the Forum representative thought that Mr. Alken understood that the speakers were to be more or less unrestricted in the scope of their discussion. Mr. Aiken, on the other hand, understood that the speakers were to be restricted to the scope of the program's title, "The Catholic Church and Politics...
Perhaps an even better alternative would be a General Education course in Great English Authors. GE likes to cross departmental lines, and it likes to get something it calls Scope into its courses. A course in English authors is a setup for GE; it could be presented in the same way that GE has successfully presented the epic and novel. Such a course would satisfy the demands of non-concentrators for a basic English course, and it would give them a better background than the literary almanac which is English...
Nugent declared that Aiken "attempted to narrow" the scope of discussion by keeping the speakers from debating Blanshard's book, "American Freedom and Catholic Power...