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"Socialism Will Crush Man"
GA_ ERI
The conflict has a long history. ation in Italy that the country where there is incentive, security see reflected in social life the Where should the Christian pre-eminent characteristic of great French Catholic, the had few resources, apart from and competition. lay the emphasis in his attitude That man, and from an understan.INCENTIVE OF HOPE Count de la Tour du Pin, has the readiness to work of the inday? the to public questions of it on record that in one of dustrious and clever population, The great historical function ding-one part of the virtue of In "Le Monde" there has ap- left of prudence-of the conditions that what is the early meetings reviand that the labelled in of the best thing the the history Gopeared an account of a discussion ving Catholic sociology, vernment could do would be to books as the reaction in the ge- best assist human progress, he is of this question between Sir discussions which preparedin the release neration that succeeded the also pre-eminently well fitted to the the energies of the naStafford Cripps and Signor De ground French Revolution was that it accept the price that has to be tion as fully as possible. Gasperi, who are reported as ha- when for "Rerum Novarum", All sorts of programmes were provided the needed complement paid for liberty, for the price is the question was posed on ving argued personally over this principle social order ought drawn up in Italy in the days of to the growing forces of capit- inequality of condition between matter. Sir Stafford Cripps is what the resistance, inspired by ge- alism and liberalism. Europe individuals, or classes, answered. to rest, he "Liberty," or nareported as declaring:and then he says: "I saw two nerous intentions, which would, enjoyed thirty years of peace tions, or generations. This "We have too long considered great devils in black frock coats had they been applied, have had after the downfall of Napoleon, equality can move materialists into industry as the domain of private get up and leave the room in si- a paralysing effect on recovery, and what was true of the nations paroxysms of frustrated indienterprise, for the ownership of lence, I understood I had said a for they would have meant the was true of all the private fa- gnation, because to them the inland or any other means of pro- "betise; I ought to have said State attempting to control all milies-that after the upheavals, equalities are in everything that duction modifies the nature of the 'Justice'," But it would not be sorts of things; and men who the marchings and counter-mar- matters to man, whereas to the relations between individuals. To difficult to show that when his could not in fact plan operations chings of the armies, men set to Christian these are only part of overcome this danger we must friends, "the great devils," the of immense complexity would work to plant and manufacture a much larger picture, one in abolish all the forms of private brothers_ Liechenstein, differed only have achieved the negative and trade all over the world, with which the differences measuownership which give to an in- from him, there was a much and impoverishing effect of co- the assured conviction that their red by quite other are standards; dividual power over the life of stronger case for saying that the nstricting enterprise and lowering children would benefit from what and he is little tempted, as the another, and put them into the emphasis should be on justice they were doing. That was the materialist is, to equate either hands of a democratic State". immense service which the con- virtue or happiness with possesthan there is seventy or eighty To this Signor De Gasperi re- years after. It has been in the NOTICE. servative forces in society ren- sions or economic levels, and applied:and the more violent the preciates bow very fragile, name and in the pursuit of soin Owing to staff short- dered; "You create an all-powerful cial justice, appealing to classes disturbances, the greater the Signor De Gasperi's phrase, is and impersonal State machine inside a country, or to a whole ages and technical diffi- risks which came from the dy- the present protection of man, which you will never be able to country as against the rest of the culties, it has been factors, in the capitalism where the huge machinery of the found namic stop. Socialism, like Stalinism, world, that these immense State which is of its nature a transfor- modern State looms over him. . Your enorwill crush man. . De necessary to defer publi- ming agency and not a conserMachines of which Signor The 'Tablet" mous State machine has no other Gasperi spoke have been built. cation of the Christmas ving one, the more important brake than the morality of the And whether or not de la Tour was it that there should be ever Number duthe to December elements in human society not individuals who direct it, du Pin was right to say "liberty" rability in each of their Christian then, Signor De Gasperi is unprimarily interested in the eco15th. respect for the liberty of others. doubtedly right to give it pride nomic process, but assuring conYou think this to be already of place today. He is right beSHENTON PARK, tinuity, the respect for law, achieved. I myself, en the other cause liberty is not only the energy. It is not difficult for po- ownership and inheritance. SCHOOL HALL, HENRY ST, hand, think them very fragile STUMBLING BLOCK highest political good; it is the litical parties, when they have to such an extent that the struc- main instrument, the main agent majorities, to take by :sgislation If the Christian should value DECEMBER 8, 9, 1949. ture of Christian society should, and factor, making for economic all the powers they fancy. It is liberty so highly from a desire to an entirely different matter wheorientated towards progress, I think, be the guarantee of that liberty of RESOURCE: ENTHUSIASM. ther they can use that power the individual, and of the liberty It has been Sigi:or De Gasperi's wisely, or, indeed, at all. To take of enterprise." own 'great achievement that, un- an extreme instance, there is der his leadership. tne Christian nothing to prevent a Government WHY NOT CHARITY? Sir Stafford Cripps is not by Democrats in Italy have provided nationalizing literature or science any means alone. His is the men- the political majority for the li- and then trying to organize the production of literature or intality of the Christian Socialist beral policies of President Einaudi vention; but a Government cangroup in the House of Com- which have carried Italy so far mons who in June, in a document on the upward path from the not, in fact, produce certain kinds of human activity at all. called "Faith, Hope and 1950", abyss of ruin and defeat. Unutmost it can do is to prorepeated their conviction that:- doubtedly these policies have The vide wilt it hopes are the best "in so far as the Christian fitted naturally with the ideas of faith has social and political the United States, which has pro- possible conditions for private those implica- vided the essential food and raw production; and for so many implications, tions, in this moment of history, materials; but the great justific- forms of human activity far and ation was a clear-sighted realiz- away the best conditions are are Socalist." conditions of freedom, the absence of any attempt to direct. EUPHEMISM. 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