Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picketers, numbering 21, paraded on the Kirkland Street side of Memorial Hall before the Archbishop's address. They were from Boston, Providence, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and carried signs such as "One world church would be totalitarian," "God's word is true,' 'and "The World Council of Churches aids Communism...
...picketers represented the International Council of Christian Churches, which calls itself "the only militant church organization challenging the ecumenical movement and exposing the havoc wrought by modernism, Communism, and the growing power of Roman Catholicism...
Things have changed. And a large part of the American mind has changed. It isn't really difficult to see that Soviet expansionism has been contained--by whatever means--and that Communism is only an incidental factor in third-world upheavals nowadays...
...United States is in Vietnam, talking about Hitler and Ho, Communism and Nazism, and apparently forgetting that governments that do not abuse and exploit their peoples are usually pretty resilient. Effective government in a pre-industrial society is really at issue in Vietnam, not the chimera of Hitler-like expansionism...
There may, however, be more disturbing implications in the government's use of mythology during the present war. For by raising the spectre of another Munich, the Administration is trying to divert attention to a foreign problem--Communism--that has really lost much of its relevance to the welfare of this nation in 1967. Unfortunately, most citizens, however shaken by the summer's spate of race riots, are far more emotional over international problems than the United States' domestic tranquility...