Word: statement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells then proceeded to quote a "trial statement of the rights of man, brought up to date," which he and friends had drafted. The wording was carefully aimed at German hearts and heads, to persuade them that Great Britain claims for Germans more than Adolf Hitler is giving them. Excerpts...
...English translation by Monsignor Patrick Hurley of the Papal Secretariat of State, the encyclical was a lofty and solemn statement of Christian, rather than exclusively Catholic, doctrines for a world beset with "difficulties, anxieties and trials." He mentioned by name only two nations, "our dear Italy" and "our dear Poland." The great body of his encyclical Pius XII devoted to an examination of the "spiritual and moral bankruptcy of the present day," and of two "errors" in particular which menace "the peaceful intercourse of peoples...
Said the Holy Father: "A full statement of the doctrinal stand to be taken in the face of errors today, if necessary, can be put off to another time less disturbed by calamitous external events"-an indication that after the war he might call an ecumenical council to define such errors. In continuation of the policies of his predecessor, Pius XII identified as errors: 1) racism, and 2) totalitarianism. Of the first: "The Church of Christ . . . cannot, and does not, think of deprecating or disdaining the particular characteristics which each people with jealous and intelligible pride cherishes...
...unfortunate that students should find their educators supporting these imperialists, who, for their own interests, wish to force Youth and Labor into the Second World War," the H. A. W. C. protested in a statement yesterday...
Their program includes support of a popular war referendum amendment to the Constitution "to take the war-making power out of Congress and put it into the hands of the people," the statement said...