Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporting the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam position, Duncan restated some pretty plain truths. He pointed out that U.S. policy since the end of World War II has been the containment of Communism. "We're not out to police the world," he said. "We did nothing in Tibet or Hungary, but we are now in a critical stage for the free world. This is a period of overall strife. Although some people describe Viet Nam as an isolated incident, it is not. It is part of a whole...
...almost vigilante fashion. The topic is indeed timely for, if we can believe C. L. Sulzberger, this kind of persecution is taking place today throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, where the overseas Chinese and other minority groups are constantly subject to attack under the guise of anti-Communism...
...with the villagers who were in contact with the National Liberation Front. He said that when asked if their sympathies lie with the government or with the Viet Cong, the peasants reply: "We follow those who keep us alive." If you tell them about Democracy and the evils of Communism, they reply: "How can we use Democracy if we're not alive...
...curriculum is one which might well strike an American gym teacher as impossible if not insane. The students are required to take the following courses: the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the philosophy of Marx and Lenin; Marxist political economy; the fundamentals of scientific Communism; a foreign language; biochemistry; anatomy, including the dissection of cadavers; the history of pedagogics; the theory of physical culture; the organization of physical culture; and how to run a motion picture projector. After graduation, these young men and women will teach athletics in sports clubs, factories and schools, turning out those...
...scarcely mentions his successor as Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, who during these years as Economic Affairs Minister was laying the groundwork for the "economic miracle," and he gives short shrift to every postwar Allied leader save Harry Truman. His characterization of Truman, whom he credits with saving Western Europe from Communism through his strong stand in 1947-48 in Greece and Turkey, might well be applied to der Alte himself: "Truman was a personality apt to stick tenaciously to a decision once taken, and unlikely to be deflected from it by criticism." A later volume of Adenauer's memoirs will...