Word: anti-american
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Filmed in 1953 by fellow-traveling Director Hideo Sekigawa, produced by the then Communist-run Japanese Teachers Union, and acted by dozens of A-bomb survivors who offered their services free, Hiroshima originally contained so many gruesome horrors and so anti-American a line that Japan's Education Ministry protested. No reputable distributor would agree to handle it, and the left-wing company that finally took it over has since gone bankrupt...
Today the Red squeeze is on. One prominent American-trained psychologist, Lu Chih-wei, was liquidated when he refused to sign an anti-American testimonial; others have been pressured into phony confessions and self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society...
...even though Russia would be almost forced to enter the war to prevent the defeat of her chief partner. And massive atomic retaliation means total war against a civilian population, with disastrous consequences even in non-Communist world opinion. Non-Communist Asia would surely turn against the West and anti-American feeling in our European allies would rise to new heights...
Sending a diplomatic mission to Pciping should also improve U.S. relations with nations which are already firmly inside the Western Alliance. Both Britain and Japan are pressuring for recognition and "normalization" of relations with the Communists. Within both nations strong anti-American elements are using the China issue to urge less cooperation with the United States. Recognition would destroy the force of such arguments...
...final objection is that the editors would hardly be free agents when they returned home. They would be under pressure to claim first-hand evidence for Russia's anti-American policy. There is the chance, however, that the visitors would learn enough to question this policy. Thus even if they did return to play variations on an old theme, the result could be no worse than the distortions which now exist...