Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belief that India and Red China share common problems-poverty, overpopulation and "white" imperialism -and must tend toward one another because of them. He never chooses publicly to mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like the jealous India Firster he basically is. Last week Nehru was actively helping Red China get Viet Nam for Ho Chi Minh, but he was also concerned...
Doctrinaire to the end, he charged that the United Fruit Co. of Boston (which lost 400,000 acres of land to Arbenz' agrarian reform program) had "tried to destroy our country" under the pretext of attacking Communism. He referred sorrowfully to the "overwhelming and tremendous means at the command of Guatemala's enemies." and signed...
...officer; the three were schoolmates at Guatemala's military academy. He is 40, popular in the army and among the people, less provincial than the narrow, little-traveled Arbenz. Last year he publicly declared: "There will be no Communists in the officers' corps while I am in command." He supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there was nothing to prove that he saw Red influence over the President as a critical problem. But his first acts in power were to 1) form a three-man junta that included...
Right up to the dramatic climax of President Arbenz' forced resignation, the war in Guatemala was a strange, onesided air war, fought by three mysterious F47 Thunderbolts and an absurd little Cessna sports plane, all under the command of the leader of the anti-Communist rebels, Colonel Castillo Armas...
...hours." For those still in the hospital, Anderson puts on a wild-game dinner every fall. Last year he fed 5,000 disabled veterans on 100 deer, 1,500 ducks and numerous quail, geese and elk, all shot by a small army of veterans under Anderson's command, on land lent specially for the annual hunt. Anderson also organized a group of 100 totally disabled men, known as the Rambling Wrecks, supplies them with tickets to sporting events...