Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot understand why anyone who has had a past record of close affiliation with communism should be an Overseer of Harvard and as such responsible for the education of our youth. Such past connections would indicate at the least a certain instability. I can understand why people who have definitely repented and have set out at great sacrifice to right, as far as possible, the wrongs that they have committed, are perhaps, proper recipients of certain honors. I can, however, find no record that Dr. Bunche has publicly stated his past connections or that he has ever repented...
...educate the officials, teaching staffs, governing bodies, undergraduates and graduates of American colleges and universities upon the subject of communism, the international communist conspiracy and its methods of infiltration in to the United States...
...addition, the Veritas group enjoys the cooperation of a small network of research bureaus, newspapers and magazines. Roosevelt serves as President and main financial supporter of The Alliance, Inc., a firm specializing in such publications as "Red Intrigue and Race Turmoil," "Color, Communism, and Common Sense," and "Manual for American Action"--the last written by Roosevelt himself. In addition, at least two New England newspapers--Manchester's Union-Leader and New Bedford's Standard-Times--appear especially sympathetic to Veritas publicity...
...field, the American Mercury has done a flip-flop from the iconoclastic days of H. L. Mencken, and in September 1957, a strongly worded article entitled "Harvard Betrays its Heritage" appeared under the byline of Harold Lord Varney, managing editor. Criticizing the Harvard Corporation for its "mawkish tolerance of communism," Varney spoke of "intellectual mushiness," and concluded that the College had "fallen into an era of little men and little men and little safety haunted minds at the Harvard summit...
...view of Veritas, glib liberalism gives aid and comfort to something more extreme: "socialism prepares the ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of direct subversion in writing Crisis of the Old Order, but it argues that his "socialistic" views unwittingly abet the communist conspiracy...