Word: anti-communist
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...Germans fleeing from their country this year. Under Walter Ulbricht's Communism, life is a dreary procession of rules and slogans that dragoon mind as well as body. At the Karl Marx Oberschule (elementary school) in Leipzig, kids are urged to keep an ear peeled at home for anti-Communist remarks by their parents; placards on the schoolroom walls proclaim "The Party Is Right" and "Struggle Today to Halt Atom War Tomorrow!" In the desperate labor shortage, tens of thousands of schoolchildren are taken from their studies to work several hours a week in factories and fields; already...
...discredited Vichy regime of Marshal Petain in World War II. In the prevailing gloom, even former "moderate" Europeans in Algiers accept the S.A.O. line. Said one: "S.A.O. next year will be a major force not only in France but in Europe. It will be Europe's sole effective anti-Communist organization...
...along he has consistently outmaneuvered the local Communist Party, and in 1959 he neatly snuffed out an attempted military coup for which he still blames CIA agents (he is certain that the U.S. disapproved of his studied neutralism, wanted a more firmly anti-Communist government). Says Sihanouk: "It is difficult to be a prince nowadays. The people believe that princes only build palaces and make gold and silver. But nowadays we have to work...
...China, in the middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work...
Telephone Coup. Grumbling had begun among the army officers over Diem's inflexible leadership, his refusal to introduce democratic reforms. And no one was happy with the way the anti-Communist war was going. Last fall the Viet Cong opened its new campaign, boosting the killing to an average 800 a month. Many soldiers blamed Diem for keeping political officers in command, refusing to allow even a company to move without his sanction. Along Saigon's Rue Catinat, the sidewalk cafés buzzed with rumors of assassination or a coup...