Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misunderstandings. Some of his converts have tried to help him out. Nervous Archivist Piet van Wijk, 41, made a glowing speech about the beauty of Islamic prayer. Suave, mustached Zeno de Lyon explained that Islam always taught the middle road. "With their system," said Zeno, "one can avoid both communism and capitalism...
...restaurants and shops, jammed sidewalk money-exchange booths, displaying rolls of crisp U.S. dollar notes. Thousands of Chinese soldiers, with the defeat of Shanghai just behind them, camped in the cavernous railroad station or roamed the streets. Civilians and soldiers (1,500,000 in number) were refugees from the communism now flooding south across China. They were also a troublesome burden to a people who wanted their island home for themselves...
...While we fully agree," says Barrois, "on the danger of a godless society, a godless state, and a godless school, we strenuously object to [Catholics'] jockeying for strategic positions so as to impose their own policies upon the nation . . . Rome has been particularly zealous in the fight against communism. But . . . consciously or unconsciously, she has never kept a clear distinction between communism as a system of economics, the materialistic ideology on which it thrives, and the pressure methods used to assure its triump. . . As much as we may dislike the economics of communism, we hold them...
Alumnus Frank B. Ober, a Maryland lawyer, had written to propose that "practical steps" be taken to eliminate "disloyal teachers." By their extracurricular pronouncements, said Ober, such men as Astronomer Harlow Shapley were giving "aid and comfort to Communism." The university's answer: "Harvard is not afraid of freedom . . . Teachers have rights as citizens to speak and write as men of independence . . . There will be no harassment of professors...
...editorial staff during college years, I wish to express hearty approval of your forth right and courageous stand in behalf of academic freedom and Harvard honor, in opposing the "witch-hunting" proposal to exclude from the University's teaching personnel anyone endorsing or supporting the ideals and philosophy of Communism...