Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans still do not realize the scope of MacArthur's task in Japan. But one fact is driving itself home; while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...
America's frontiers are in Asia. We cannot abandon Asia to Communism any more than we can abandon Europe to Communism. As in the war, so in the peace we must fight on both fronts. In spite of what has happened in China we still have a chance here. We have the unique opportunity of making the Japanese people into a good society. They have an old adage here-as Japan goes, so goes Asia. The history of the next 100 years, perhaps the next 1,000 years, may be decided here in the East...
...harried businessmen and the hapless middle class he burbled: "With the victory of the Chinese Communists, half the world's people are now Communist. Communism is the future. Japan must trade with the rest of Asia to survive, and all the rest of Asia is rapidly going Communist. Trust us ... We will reconstruct Japan and make it bright and happy...
...fighter's view of the whole situation: "I have seen it a lot worse for us in China and the Pacific than even it is now, and I have seen us turn it around and win . . . There are millions and millions of Chinese who don't like Communism and will fight...
...Catholic or a Communist to teach the social sciences ... I believe that a teacher should not teach with a bit in his teeth controlled by any organization able thereby to control what he teaches and omits from his teaching and with a record of exercising such control . . . Today, anti-communism is actively fostered as a blanket political weapon, and pressure is being brought on educational institutions to dismiss uncritically actual or alleged Communists ... I have accordingly changed my stand, and it now is: No teacher should be refused a position or fired on the basis of his membership...