Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democracy to Communism...
McGlue, a long-time foe of PR, is trying, according to DeGuglielmo, to interfere with Cambridge home rule and to change democracy to communism. The councilor said that McGlue had even tried to "halt the election" through petitions to the courts...
...that one should catch up, if not with the prosperity of the U.S. or Canada, at least with that of France or Italy. The Asian intellectual casts his eyes around for some method by which his country can pull itself up almost overnight by its bootstraps. Only too often, Communism is not to him the brave new world that the Western Utopians saw in the '30s, but a practical expedient by means of which a poor nation can ruthlessly mobilize its manpower and resources so as to attain economic strength, military power and, consequently, the esteem of the world...
Certainly President Kuwatly and the military leaders who put him in power have no interest in letting Syria become a base for either Russian or American operations. The anti-colonialism in the Middle East expressed itself not in Communism, but in an assertion of Arab unity. It would be a major blunder if the United States appeared to be the enemy of this unity and allowed Russia to become its protector...
Aside from dropping, for the moment at least, the sword of righteousness, the United States must increase its economic aid program in the Middle East. Economic stability is still the surest weapon against Communism. Syria and its neighbors are still vulnerable to Marxist doctrine, and only financial security can prevent its spread...