Word: anti-communist
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There was never a time during the years from 1929 to 1939 when being anti-Communist wasn't easier and more lucrative for a writer than being Communist. The Party was not important because it put any kind of stamp on American thought; Aaron shows that it exerted a totally negative effect on American literary radicalism. The Party seriously crippled radical political and cultural criticism of American society, and left scars that would still hurt twenty years later...
Scarcely 16 months ago, autocratic, anti-Communist President Diem had narrowly missed being overthrown by mutinous paratroopers, and this time he was taking no chances. With the agility born of experience, short, stocky Diem dashed down the stairs of the palace's east wing to a cellar fortified against such emergencies, flashed word by telephone to his military commanders just as a napalm bomb turned the west wing into a smoky shambles. In a west wing apartment, meanwhile, Diem's brother and sister-in-law, Braintruster Nhu (still clad in pajamas) and Presidential Hostess Mme. Nhu, snatched three...
...23rd, Fanfani reshuffled his previous Cabinet to eliminate Christian Democrats who opposed the controversial apertura. Leading absentee, ex-Interior Minister Mario Scelba, whose steel-helmeted riot police put down many a Red demonstration. Three seats, including the Ministry of the Treasury, went to Giuseppe Saragat's anti-Communist Social Democrats; moderate leftist Republicans received two portfolios, including the important Ministry of the Budget, which is responsible for long-range economic planning. To balance the shift leftward in domestic affairs, Fanfani kept on notable Christian Democrats in sensitive external affairs posts-moderate Foreign Minister Antonio Segni, a strong Common Market...
...when the biggest laugh of the afternoon thundered down on an allusion to Robert Welch, that was neither funny nor original. The skit, however, met his demands for fresh commentary, as it turned the Birch Society's rise into the logical extension of Kennedy's plea for a unified, anti-Communist attitude during "this time of crisis...
Thurmond spoke on "Muzzling the Military," in a program sponsored by the American Institute, a patriotic anti-Communist organization. Outside the hall, on Stuart and Berkeley Streets, members of the NAACP, CORE, and the Massachusetts American Veterans' Committee protested the Senator's views on civil rights, the cold war, and military censorship in a 75-man picket line...