Word: anticommunist
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...election to Congress in 1938, the stocky, amiable Mundt applied his oratorical talents to the cause of American isolationism before Pearl Harbor awakened him to international concerns. A supporter of the United Nations and sponsor of the bill creating the Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired the McCarthy-Army hearings six years later. After suffering a stroke in 1969, he refused to resign and in February...
Although Faisal, who is bitterly antiCommunist, has been a firm friend of the U.S. over the years, he was roused to action by U.S. support of Israel during the October war. He helped bankroll the Arab armies, sent a token force of soldiers to fight alongside the Syrians on the Golan Heights, and then called the signals for the oil embargo that sent a frisson through the economies of the U.S., Europe and Japan. It was only two weeks ago that the U.S., taking a long step toward reconciliation, agreed to work out programs of economic, technical and military...
loannidis is known to be militantly antiCommunist. There was some speculation that in planning the coup, loannidis capitalized on the student uprisings at Polytechnic University last month in order to play upon the Greek public's fears of Communism. For one thing, he allowed provocative film footage of the aftermath of rioting and street fighting to appear on Athens television -something that he could easily have prevented. As a result, many Greeks were convinced that a Communist takeover was imminent, and that the coup was organized to forestall...
Little is known about loannidis' past. Born in 1923, the son of a moderately well-off businessman, he entered the Greek military academy in 1940, shortly before his country was attacked by Italy. During World War II, loannidis served with an anti-German (and antiCommunist) resistance unit. After the war, he was assigned to a succession of low-profile and lusterless army jobs...
...British led to frequent jail terms. Though his prophetic support for a separate Moslem state-which became Pakistan-caused a break with Gandhi in 1942, he later rejoined his old ally and in 1948 became India's first native-born Governor-General. Long a conservative and an ardent antiCommunist, Rajaji was no follower of the majority Congress Party led by Jawaharlal Nehru; in 1959 he established his own right-wing Swatantra (Freedom) Party...