Word: anti-communist
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Blackwell entered his complaint that the painting violated Mississippi law on April 9. "As past state chairman of the Patriotic American Youth," he said then, "I consider the mention of this anti-communist organization among such vile words and phrases as derogatory...
...went to the polls last week. The voters were merely choosing municipal officials. But the elections were widely regarded as a barometer for the presidential campaign next year. Out of the ballot boxes emerged a major new power in Chilean politics: the Christian Democrats, a left-of-center but anti-Communist party that rolled up 22.8% of the vote and thus became the biggest single political group in the country...
...word of Russia's restalinization of culture at first caused a bad case of jitters. Yet last week, in striking contrast to the clampdown in Moscow, Budapest seemed almost relaxed. Said Cultural Commissar Istvan Szirmai: "The party will be tolerant. All artistic and literary creations which are not anti-Communist will be allowed...
When Hannah Arendt's On Revolution was published a month ago, Time Magazine clucked its approval. A renowned political philosopher with impeccable anti-communist credentials had decided all revolutions--except the American Revolution--are unprofitable. What more could Time ask? In a review entitled "The Fools of History," the glossy weekly assured its readers that they now had on the highest authority what Time had been telling them all along: revolutions are nasty, and really shouldn't happen...
...indeed the only alternative to President Diem's incompetency is a unified, Communist Vietnam (and according to American intelligence there is no anti-Communist group that the CIA could help to replace Diem), then the U.S. should withdraw as gracefully as possible. Negotiations for free elections to unify the country (which is what Vietamese of all complexions say they ultimately want) might be a good step. The Geneva Treaty which ended the Indo-Chinese War stipulated that such elections be held in 1956; by supporting the treaty now, the U.S. might repair much of the damage of its past violations...