Various Party Programs

...Of course, we shall not arrive in the Catholic principles of reform, especially as they apply twinkling of an eye at the suppression of politics as to labor, can hardly be transferred into effective prac- in Russia and Italy-at, that is, a collaboration of tice unless they can gain the support of those who all the economic groups...

...The former chancellor, Dr...

...Wirth's views, it can be said that of methods...

...He pleads originated...

...Fascism and Sovietism are, after all, two of public feeling...

...It is up to "two-party" system would mean assenting to a grow- us to begin by getting rid of all "middle parties" ing concentration of governmental power, whereas the the Radical is dying in France, the Liberal in EngCentrist ideal has always been a healthy federalism land, the Centrist in Germany...

...The opponents a capitalist and a little of a salaried worker, a little of Dr...

...does not himself profess the Catholic faith cannot In Germany, the greatest of all purely political safely be taken as a guide in the interpretation of issues seems to be this: Can the Centrum keep on the Church's tradition and scope...

...The diagnosis may to each considerable autonomous control...

...Beyond all be a little premature, but perhaps something might doubt, the clash has aroused a great deal of discus- be gathered in its support even from contemporary sion and has developed protagonists on both sides...

...This rift in turn in the United States...

...November 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 629 VARIOUS PARTY PROGRAMS such matters, the opinion of an American spectator is of little value...

...For Italy and Russia, capable of unifying the separate states while allowing these all are now extinct species...

...In political scene...

...But one is reassured by Dr...

...On the other hand, opposition to cenrevolutionary Russia, the temporary defeat of Trotsky tralized government is certainly a characteristic of indicates a rift between certain members of the Cen- traditional Catholic feeling and is easily discerned even tral Committee and the Secretariat...

...Russia ought to be restored, not only among Russians, It was patently directed at Charles Maurras personbut also among sundry other folk throughout the ally and drew attention to the fact that a man who world...

...Wirth also urge that a frank acceptance of a of a communist and a little of a Fascist...

...appears to imply that two parties are in a process of The French attitude toward domestic affairs is still formation within the solidarity of Sovietism...

...In affairs in the United States...

...tury of doctrines...

...Perhaps the effect is already discernible for a consolidation of all groups more or less closely in the marked stabilizing influence of Poincare...

...Against present period of transition, there is room in France them, it can be stated that the attempt to give the for only two great political organisms-a great bourCentrum an emphatically "Left" label would alienate geois party and a great labor party, which are only many supporters and so weaken the effectiveness of alignments created to negotiate their approaching what has been traditionally a great organization and fusion into a new society, wherein everybody will be a resolute guardian of the rights, liberties, and cultural (what is already the case in social habits) a little of acquisitions of Catholics in Germany...

...Wirth's AMERICANS engaged just now in choosing be- outspoken expression of loyalty to the party and by tween political candidates and parties may at the knowledge that, however iconoclastic his views least take comfort in knowing that they are not so may seem, they are unquestionably expressed in good hard pressed in making a decision as are many of their faith and supported by experienced knowledge of the counterparts at the voting booths in other lands...

...But in any case, during the hold to similar standards for different reasons...

...Wirth, critiques of liberalistic political theory which cannot is the spokesman of a group which feels that Germany be overlooked in France-where, by the way, both will soon have no need of a third party...

...But there does not union and recommended the "removal" of Stalin as a appear to be any great danger at present that the way preventive...

...the twentieth century is a century In behalf of Dr...

...To who came to mind was the dead Duc d'Orleans...

...On the other hand, being a "middle party" or must it associate itself the influence of moderate socialism is also waning definitely with one or the other of two great streams noticeably...

...Though l'Action Francaise has measure could have forestalled indefinitely the rise undoubtedly increased in numbers, its powerlessness is of antagonistic political organizations, the one pledged indicated by the fact that during the worst crisis the to the continuance of the full revolutionary program Third Republic ever faced-the invitation to M. and the other favoring a gradual development of Herriot to form a ministry-the only royal person middle-class participation in the social business...

...The all appearances, Stalin is loyally abiding by his prin- attack levied at the party by the Cardinal of-Borciple of conciliation...

...Accord- largely governed by intense dissatisfaction with the ing to Max Eastman, Lenin foresaw the coming dis- present parliamentary system...

...and if he succeeds, confidence in deaux does not alter the status of monarchistic action...

...is open to anything more astonishing than a mildly But perhaps not even this gentle prophylactic personal dictatorship...

...identified with the "Left," hoping thus to use the As an interesting sample of what effect these power of the Centrum in defending the present repub- critiques are having upon intellectual coteries in modlican form of government, carrying out a program of ern Gaul, we offer the following observations by Drieu social relief, and mitigating the dangers that may de la Rochelle : "The nineteenth century was a cencome from a radically socialistic advance to power...