Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Granting or withholding of official recognition by the United States will not make or break the Chinese Communist regime, according to three University experts...
This week the Roman Catholic bishopsof Czechoslovakia came to open defiance of the Communist government'snew laws to control and suppress the church (TIME, Nov. 14). In a letter to Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky, the bishops told how they had tried to meet the government at least halfway, had issued "conciliatory directives" telling priests to accept state salaries and take an oath of loyalty to the Red regime. In return, the bishops said, the Communist government had issued new decrees which were "an attack on the organization and life of the church." The bishops' letter concluded: "We cannot...
...ripped the sketch for a student mural off its La Guardia Hall wall because of "sharp student controversy" (TIME, Dec. 5). The mural, by thrice-wounded Veteran Harold Collins, was intended to represent One World, but some of his fellows thought it looked like nothing more nor less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted the mural sketch back; they...
...clear," writes Dean Pope, "that mission activities will continue in China only at the tolerance of the Communist authorities." Under such conditions, "the missions will almost certainly collapse, in one way or another...
Last week, after test cases brought by the Communist Party and a teachers' group, State Supreme Court Justice Harry E. Schirick declared the law a bill of attainder (i.e., a legislative act that punishes without trial) and therefore unconstitutional. In its vagueness, said Schirick, the act was a "dragnet which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of Government...