Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must help new nations, he said, but added wisely that economic aid is "futile unless the country in question is resolute in making the primary effort itself." Communist subversion of new nations is always a threat, but McNamara vowed soberly that "it would be a gross oversimplification to regard Communism as the central factor in every conflict throughout the underdeveloped world...
...half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North Viet Nam a bare 20 minutes as the U.S. fighter-bombers fly from their Thai bases. Everywhere on the great peninsula, militant Communism, poverty, misery, illiteracy, misrule, and a foundering sense of nationhood are the grim order of the Asian...
...Thanom Kittikachorn, 54, who was Sarit's deputy and took over after him in 1963 as Premier. Field Marshal Thanom has continued Sarit's basic policies of national development, anti-Communism and friendship with the free world. But his personal style is a bit different: a quiet homebody with no taste for nightclubs, he resigned from all his private businesses when word of Sarit's indiscretions leaked out. His greatest problem, he says, is "how to safeguard and ensure the security of Thailand" against Red insurgency...
...revulsion against radical ideology, Editor Eliot Cohen sought out strong individual opinion and refused to tout any political line. In the 1950s, Commentary became a leading exponent of so-called "liberal revisionism," an attempt to make liberal thought less dogmatic, more aware of life's evils, including Communism. In a searching revisionist essay, Critic Leslie Fiedler chided fellow liberals for flocking so thoughtlessly to the defense of Alger Hiss. "Certainly a generation was on trial with Hiss," he wrote, "on trial not, it must be noticed, for having struggled toward a better world, but for having substituted sentimentality...
...needle the left, she once made fun of a prominent pro-Communist Deputy in Parliament who loves the good life enough to own a house, a yacht in Athens and an apartment in Paris. When she suggested in a subsequent column that the Deputy did not even believe in Communism, he angrily threatened to sue, and other left-wingers cheered him on. Said the columnist: "The left has no sense of humor...