Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attitudes at home set more stringent limits as a rising number of Americans demand to know why they must commit their strength on distant frontiers. They see a diminishing threat to their security as world Communism splits into opposing camps. They relax as the U.S. dialogue with Russia mellows; they worry less about a Red China hobbled by internal dissension. By their insistent questions they force the Administration to search for a set of priorities, to think twice before it exercises U.S. power...
...Father, who is Fidel, who is with us sinners, free us from the power of Pontius Pilate, who is Lyndon Johnson, and from imperialism. Viva Communism, viva Fidel; he is in the fore, and we behind him. We must always be at his side. Amen...
...Ecuador Volunteers cite the view that Peace Corps policy is motivated by the U.S. "world wide struggle against communism, not by a genuine desire to help poor nations" but they offer no evidence for the charge. This indictment amounts to a new claim of guilt by association. For all its faults the Peace Corps is the best thing that this nation is doing abroad, and to tar it with the brush of "arrogance" and "colonialism" merely because it is an agency of the U.S. government strikes me as both unsophisticated and dishonest. Efrem Sigel '64 Associate Managing Editor, 1964; Peace...
...armies paused only a few times before they had driven the Germans back to Germany. The victory also restored much respectability to a Communist movement tarnished in the 1930s by the Stalinist purges and the cynical Hitler-Stalin pact; the party signed up many new believers who mistakenly credited Communism-and not simply patriotism-for inspiring the Russian victory at Stalingrad...
...professor of Vietnamese history at Columbia University, conceded that Greene's "emphasis on civilian targets gave a false impression," but called the film "a useful counterpoint to our own propaganda." Robert Scalapino, who teaches political science at Berkeley, observed that the documentary "did not mention the word 'Communism' once," and summed up that it "presented North Viet Nam as the North Vietnamese Communists would like to have...