Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Affrico lies in the district of Emilia, Italy's Reddest region, and most of its 500 people voted Communist at the last election. Don Giorgio is a staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...
...still empty, and its doors still walled up. Don Luciano had not appeared. The archbishop, who could not with dignity knuckle under to the rebellious flock, had referred the matter to Rome. The stubborn Affricans were considering an appeal to the Pope. Said one sharecropper, who is nominally a Communist but whose ideological reliability is subject to grave doubts: "Don Giorgio has been good to our children and risked his life for us. In him we have faith...
When the smuggling story broke in Mexico City, Beteta was unexpectedly faced with the possibility of a financial panic, touched off by a run on the Banco de Comercio. Said the pro-Communist El Popular: "Every patriotic depositor should withdraw all funds at once." Beteta' asked editors and financial writers to go easy on the bank...
Czechoslovakia's Communist government decided to purge fairy tales from children's reading. Official replacement for Prince Charming as a schoolbook hero: President Klement Gottwald...
Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...