Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Communism." the new Secretary of State had written of Stalin's Problems of Leninism, "starts with an atheistic, godless premise. Everything else flows from that premise. If there is no God, there is no moral or natural law . . . Since there is no moral law, there is no such thing as abstract right or justice. Laws are the means, the decrees, by which the dictatorship of the proletariat enforces its will 'for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies' . . . There is a duty to extend this system to all the world...
...Attempted "new approaches" to the surging neutralist nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, but failed-over the short run-to convince them that there could be no neutralism in a universal struggle, was less effective in handling crises in which Communism was not directly involved, e.g., his blow-hot, blow-cold performance on U.S. help for Egypt's Aswan...
...along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes to help the beleaguered French, but Dulles was against it, and the President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively, threw U.S. support to a shaky new Nationalist government in South Viet Nam, helped negotiate and set up a brand new Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ("Pactomania," said the critics) that has faced up to Communism in Southeast Asia ever since...
...What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet...
...also said one of his major goals is to ward off Communism by wiping out poverty and hunger. The heavy-bearded revolutionist spoke to the American Society of Newspaper Editors while friends and foes of his regime demonstated, in an atmosphere of some tension, outside the hotel...