Word: anticommunist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheel of History. The accused were twelve White Russian emigrès who had become Soviet citizens in 1946, when Stalin granted an "amnesty" to the White refugee colonies in China, France and Yugoslavia. The Russians had given Soviet passports to thousands of emigres, who, although antiCommunist, were tired of life in exile and wanted to go back to Russia, but Moscow had held up the actual entry permits, used them as bait to force some of the emigres to work for Soviet foreign agents. That, apparently, was what had happened to the twelve accused...
...Christian world of the West and all it stands for." Adenauer is a devout Roman Catholic, but his party and his cabinet include some Protestants, with whom he works well. Politically, he is a Christian Democrat. He was a firm anti-Nazi and is an equally firm antiCommunist. He has a profound distaste for socialism. He has told Americans: "To many people, socialism is all right, only national socialism is bad. I say socialism-if it runs its course-must ultimately become national socialism...
...Georges Bidault." The deal, according to Bougenot, was that Bidault, if he became Premier, would prevent any pther government from succeeding his own. This would bring about dissolution of the Assembly, and new elections. The M.R.P. and De Gaulle's party would then join forces under an antiCommunist, strong-government banner, and would, if they won the election, install themselves in power...
Republican Montgomery (he campaigned for Willkie in 1940 and Dewey in 1948) describes himself as both anti-Socialist and antiCommunist. But he does not intend always to follow the G.O.P. line. "I will speak for myself and I will speak freely," he promised, fingering the script of his first broadcast, which will be recorded and flown to the U.S. "I have no wish to reform anything, no wish to preach and no advice to offer. I just want to talk to people about things that interest me and that I hope will interest them." His sponsor, Lee Hats, decided...
Affrico lies in the district of Emilia, Italy's Reddest region, and most of its 500 people voted Communist at the last election. Don Giorgio is a staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...