Word: anticommunist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morning News, which rails against the St. Lawrence Seaway as a socialistic boondoggle-and then pleads for federal help to build a 294-mile Trinity River Canal to make Dallas a seaport. Somehow Dallas manages to reduce most public issues to a simple question: Is it pro- or antiCommunist...
...Gaulle's major rival is nearly as unusual as le grand Charles himself. In a Roman Catholic country, Defferre is a Protestant. He is a co-owner of a prosperous newspaper, Le Provencal, and though a convinced Socialist, possesses one of those conspicuous bourgeois appurtenances, a yacht. An antiCommunist, Defferre nevertheless gets Communist support at elections...
...debts, offered wage boosts to just about everybody. He gave up the Premier's limousine ("We can build four village schools with the money"), opened his office once a week to petitioners who swamped him with gripes, job requests, even demands to speed up their divorces. Though antiCommunist, Papandreou also managed to please leftists. He promised to free most of the 1,000 political prisoners, in jail since the end of the Communist civil war in 1949. He also complained, accurately, that the Greek defense budget, amounting to 5% of its gross national income, is higher than that...
...opposition Labor Party under Arthur Calwell, 67, charged that 14 years in power have left the Liberals stale and tired, attacked Menzies for failure to spur economic growth. Hard-pressed by his party's left wing, Calwell, who is personally a strong antiCommunist, nevertheless sought to embarrass Menzies by demanding 1) joint control, rather than exclusive U.S. control, of the huge U.S. Navy Communications Center now abuilding on the barren west coast of Australia, 2) a nuclear-free zone in the Southern Hemisphere and 3) recognition of Red China. That, countered Menzies, "would give Peking a smashing victory." Calwell...
Compleat Angler. Nonetheless, Gromyko trusts "Milord" Home enough to converse with him in English when they are alone, and Soviet admirers dubbed him respectfully the "Western Mo'otov." Laborites accused him of being rigidly antiCommunist, but Home was always ready to negotiate problems when he thought that there was any hope. When dealing with the Russians, said Compleat Angler Home, "I go trying for a fish. If nothing bites, I go back the next day. If a small fish bites, I go after a bigger...