Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found one in the mild revival the Ku Klux Klan was enjoying at the time. Fiery crosses began conveniently to brighten the hillsides overlooking his political meetings. The Klan's menace, he orated, was subtler than of old, but no less real. It was, in fact, the menace of Communism. At the same time, on Halloween night, Klan leaflets turned up in the mailboxes of Harvard dormitories. These also berated the Communist menace, but urged, as the Crimson reported, that the "standard of the Klan be raised again in defense of American institutions as in former years...
...Westerners who regard India as the most important non-belligerent battlefield for the Soviet and the Free World, Newbigin points out that there are no conditions in his country which are intrinsically antipathetic to Communism. "Not a prophet, but hopeful," he still states that existing remnants of the caste system will do as little to prevent the spread of Communism as respect for ancestry did in China. For the West, he feels, the best course would be to "have confidence in the Congress Party, but remember that Nehru must deliver the goods." One way to aid him would...
...clear that Newbigin, like most Christian missionaries in potential Asian and African "democratic showcases," does not feel that anti-Communism is a creed for men to live by. "Communism should be fought, but the Church cannot be defined as anti-anything. It approaches people simply as human beings." In India, a religiously sophisticated nation, conversion is never a matter of "trying to rope people into the show, and a sense of God is taken naturally by the Indians," according to Newbigin. The main growth of Christianity is now taking place in the villages, by word-of-mouth rather than organized...
Brzezinski also discussed Poland's "period of spontaneity" in 1956 and 1957 and outlined its effect on other satellite nations. "The presence of Poland's divergent pattern gives other states an argument against a universal brand of communism," he said...
China, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, since they are "more Stalinist than Russia," are forcing the Soviets into an awkward ideological position, Brzezinski said. "China predicts it will achieve 'the realization of communism' when the People's Communes are completed; Russia and the European satellites are still in transition from socialism to communism...