Word: anticommunist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Francis Patrick Matthews, who had made no splash in 15 months in office, is a mild-looking and prosperous Omaha lawyer, a good Democrat, a prominent Roman Catholic layman (a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword), and a dedicated and fervent antiCommunist. One of the things he is not is a military strategist (he admitted, when he became Secretary, that his knowledge of naval affairs was confined to operating a rowboat). As Navy Secretary, he had apparently got to thinking of the danger of being Pearl...
...probably never will. They didn't like the way he got to power with the help of Hitler and Mussolini, or the dictatorial way he stayed in power. In his favor it could only be said that, along with his fulminations against democracy, he had also been antiCommunist. There was one other thing to be said for Franco's Spain: its location...
From the end of the war until last year, the largest part of the mail in this angry category belabored the editors for being too antiCommunist. "TiME, in its ultra-Rightist position, seems to be carrying on the tradition of [getting] everybody mad at Soviet Russia," was the way one irate letter writer put it. Other typical comments: "Your article is the all-time high so far in your anti-Soviet hate-mongering campaign, and puts the vituperative anti-Communist propaganda of Goebbels to shame." "Shame on your incessant and hysterical saber-rattling against Communism...
...there has been a perceptible move to the right in the U.S. Today few citizens fail to see the menace of Communism. Some, however, both moved and confused by the charges of Senator McCarthy and others, have compounded the hysteria which says that any man is right who cries antiCommunist...
Both parties agree on Turkey's antiCommunist, pro-West foreign policy...