Word: anti-communist
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...nominate as Man of the Year Commander Alan Shepard, the first man in space. As an anti-Communist Maltese, I do not believe that the Communists have yet sent a man into space...
Brass Tacks & Corn Pone. Thailand posed especially delicate problems for Johnson. One of the strongest anti-Communist nations in Southeast Asia, Thailand was fast losing its faith in the U.S. after the debacle in neighboring Laos. Johnson set the mood for his reassuring talks with Sarit by stopping off at Bangkok's SEATO headquarters building to deliver a blunt statement. "It is sometimes difficult to understand how a man-or a nation-can treasure liberty for himself," said Johnson, his voice sharpening as he spoke, "and be totally unconcerned for it when it involves other people...
...Professors' petition, couched in explicitly anti-Communist terms, deplores the demise of civil liberties in Cuba, and suggests that the most efficacious means of precluding Communist advance in this hemisphere would be the development of alternate channels for the social change that almost seems overdue throughout Latin America. That this throughtfully conceived proposal should have drawn blood in the frightening way it has, says little for a press supposedly concerned over national security. The red-baiting, the guilt by accusation, and the cries of appeasement have not done much to advance a desperately needed discussion of a life-and-death...
Sandor Voros, a Hungarian-born, American ex-Communist, adds nothing but corroboration to their impressive testimony; indeed, if his book has a place in anti-Communist literature, it comes from the fact that basically he was a very ordinary fellow. Not philosophical revulsion or a moral crisis, but outraged innocence was his ticket of leave from the party, and he writes in appropriate style, rather like an Eagle Scout who discovered that the fix was on at national headquarters...
...others by appearing weak in the face of a small Caribbean dictator and appalled everyone by being both indiscreet and ineffective. "If that is the kind of assistance we may expect in our fight with Communism," said a Peruvian journalist, "then it's high time we stopped being anti-Communist...