Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stubborn men. The Chiang regime (like the Greek government, which the U.S. also supported) suffered at one time or another from many of the worst vices known to governments: corruption and disunity, incompetence and indecision. Yet in a world racked by the evil and destruction of first fascist, then Communist aggression, the American job was to work with the world it found and know what world it wanted. In China, it tried and it failed. At no point in the long chronicle of its failure had it displayed a modest fraction of the stamina and decisiveness which had checked Communism...
...more than 20 years, he had held various jobs with the woodworkers' union. But he had a second love-he was a Communist. Last spring, by then London district secretary for his union, Kennedy heard shop stewards' gossip about the cost of remodeling 124-year-old Clarence House for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.* Later, he broadcast the gossip on the ABC's News of Tomorrow program; the repairs, he said, would cost about $1,000,000, or five times the sum appropriated for it by Parliament. (Minister of Works Charles Key denied that the original appropriation...
Budapest's Szabad Nep (Free People) buckled down to the job of educating its readers on what it calls the "Private Life of a Communist...
Said Szabad Nep: "A Communist is a Communist not only in the party but in his home life. He must ... be a model husband, wife, father or mother who cares for his children and educates them to become faithful members of the working class." One particularly important duty of the model father or mother: rejection of the "bourgeois slogan" of free love...
Love in Czechoslovakia, the Communists announced last week, is dangerously tainted by commercialism. Ever since marriage advertisements were banned from the Czech newspapers, reported Prague's Communist Rude Pravo (Red Right), "editors keep getting letters from men as well as women complaining that now they have no chance to obtain mates...