Word: anticommunist
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...secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted him a $3,750 fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, where he would have no contact with classified work. (At Harvard, Dr. Edelman declared he was an antiCommunist, but admitted he had been briefly interested and "probably" had applied for Communist Party membership as a student six years ago. He is now engaged, said Edelman, in the study of urine and other body fluids...
...Germany, where the Russians had staged an election for a People's Congress in the Soviet zone (TIME, May 23), they received a stinging slap in the face. Communist Party workers got out the vote, all right, but the vote was heavily antiCommunist. The Communist press had predicted an overwhelming victory, obviously expecting the customary Red majority of 90-plus percent. The Russians resorted to their usual poll shenanigans; e.g., they counted as "yes" votes all write-in ballots with remarks like "No more concentration camps!" and "Liberty!" Nevertheless, after mulling the returns over for two days, the Russians...
Although Nora, who is strongly antiCommunist, would say little about her brother, she provided some important background on their family. She said that after not seeing him for 18 years she found out his identity and position in the U.S. Communist Party when an aunt told her to get a copy of TIME'S April 7, 1947 issue. There she read about her brother's appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his refusal to give his right name...
...believe that the American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian, and being anti-Communist does not automatically mean they are pro-war." Snapped Playwright Lillian Hellman: "I would recommend, Mr. Cousins, that when you talk about your hosts at dinner, wait until you have gone home...
...breadth-by dealing with political types rather than political tenets, and by suggesting that it takes a good many kinds of people to make up even a Communist world. The essential struggle between idealist and realist, absolutist and compromiser, is indeed common to all movements; what might be considered "anticommunist" about the play is its picturing a lack of charity that begins at home...