Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanaka: "I hope we can all live and prosper peacefully. But I will struggle all my life-and die if I must-to keep the few from dominating the many as they did in militaristic Japan and do in Communist Russia...
Staffed by a few volunteers, the Kampfgruppe set up shop in Hildebrandt's home. Daily 40 to 60 visitors came to contribute their knowledge of Communist inhumanity. The Kampfgruppe released to the press detailed accounts of life and suffering in Communist concentration camps. The catalogue of horrors soon served another purpose. From inmates who were released or had escaped, Hildebrandt obtained names of people who had died or were still held in Soviet-zone prisons, tried to inform their relatives...
...completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he was a wartime cabinet member, Matsu-moto's as a general. However, young Tanaka is a conservative, young Matsumoto a Communist. They typify the two vigorous parties in Japan-and the way Japanese youth is torn...
Matsumoto: "Nothing in the world is more important than Communism. There is no truth except dialectical materialism. I wish I could go to a university in Russia where it is the only system taught. When Japan becomes Communist, we will teach nothing but Marxism here...
...Quakers feel that by making a reality of good will among men, they can overcome even the most brutally "realistic" aspects of Communist doctrine. They concede that "a final violent conflict between the Soviet and the capitalist worlds is a basic article of faith of Russian Communism." Even so, the Quakers fondly hope that "the flexible nature of Russian Communism and the existence of certain precedents make even a fundamental change in attitude toward the non-Communist world not entirely beyond the range of possibility...