Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enemies of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the man who is strategic Iraq's chief bulwark against a Communist takeover, charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth. Kassem himself recently told a TIME correspondent: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else if they like." Incidentally, the main reason Kassem rides through Baghdad every afternoon is not to receive the applause of the crowds, but to visit his suburban home for a bath: the Defense Ministry, where Kassem sleeps, has no bathroom...
...Department is not encouraging students, quietly or otherwise, to have anything to do with the Festival. There does exist a feeling among many lower-echelon officials of the Department, that a group of well-informed and intelligent Americans would help the United States and serve to counter-balance the Communist propaganda activities. The Administration, however, maintains its policy that anybody who has contact with Communists will be contaminated, and upon return pollute the United States--in all likelihood someone who would want to attend the Festival is a Communist anyway...
...result, anybody who is either interested in observing how Communist show-pieces work, or who wants to talk with convinced Communists, runs the risk of having an unfavorable addition to his dossier, and probably encountering considerable difficulty in obtaining security clearances. Thus, the government effectively prevents the scientists and would-be public servants who must fear official comments from taking any part in the Festival...
...government, is virtually powerless to change the situation even if it wanted to. Its decisions on what is good for the country are already unpopular enough among other Departments to minimize the effects of approving attendance at the Festival. In future hearings, the fact of participation in a Communist-dominated activity would scarcely be mitigated by an ancient endorsement...
...responsibility rests with the Administration as a whole. If the government will recognize that taking a part--even unofficial--in Communist-infiltrated activities can help to balance lopsided propaganda, our real successes in Moscow may be repeated. But if we make things difficult for the interested to do anything without incurring the wrath of the government, those who went to the Russian capital to argue for the West will have little encouragement to visit Vienna, and America will be the loser...