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Word: communist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department wants to recognize the Chinese Communists," and "Acheson suggested that U.S. warships join British warships in breaking the Chinese Nationalist blockade of Communist ports" [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Pointing Both Ways. Senator Smith would 1) turn over to a committee of generals and admirals the $75 million appropriated to oppose Communism's spread in China, 2) lend strong support to a Free China movement, 3) never recognize the Communist government of Mao Tse-tung. But chiefly he tried to fix U.S. attention on the island of Formosa, which the Nationalist government regards as its last redoubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Time for Action? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Ocean frontier, Formosa lies on the line between three potential sea-air bastions: Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines (see map). In the hands of an Asia-based enemy it would menace U.S. communication lines. But it is a gun which can point both ways. The U.S. could point it at Communist China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Time for Action? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...master of a U.S. freighter: "Was my entry Shanghai legal or illegal: if illegal, I request notice. If legal, insist upon suitable protection." The freighter Sir John Franklin was the second to be fired on in the past two weeks, while trying to run the Nationalist blockade into Chinese Communist ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Foolish Face | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...towering, well-tailored hodcarrier with a roguish black mustache clambered into the witness chair in a San Francisco federal courtroom last week, thumbed his red suspenders and settled back for a long stay. John Schomaker, former Communist, was Witness No.1 in the case of the U.S. v. Harry Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Shoes on the Stand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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