Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to some 325 lawyers assembled for a two-week program of instruction. Finletter described himself as "very, very disturbed about the changing scene in foreign affairs," and offered a general program to combat the "shrinkage of the West in population, industrial activity, and military power relative to the Communist nations...
Most Cubans were still convinced that Castro is not the Communist that his old friend, Díaz Lanz. says he is. But by outlawing anti-Communism in Cuba, he had proved that, willingly or not, he is the Reds' best tool in Latin America since Jacobo Arbenz fled Guatemala in 1954 and eventually fetched up in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And he is a strongman of terrifying power. No Cuban could feel safe when one man could, with mere words, so quickly reduce the President of his country to the status of a traitor...
...Mayor Peng Chen at a January rally in honor of Mexico's visiting ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, "have common aspirations and interests in the just struggle against imperialism." More and more, with all the propaganda arts, Red China is trying to make itself the Communist model for Latin America-even at Russia's expense. Last week a team of Chinese "journalists" wound up a successful friendship tour through South America in Havana, where a fortnight ago plans were announced for a Communist-line Chinese-language daily for Cuba's 30,000 Chinese.*Radio...
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fell under Castro's spell. Said he: "The only difference I saw was that
he's putting on weight around the middle." With other
newsmen-including the Times's fulltime Cuba correspondent, Ruby Hart
Phillips -reporting growing discontent with the Castro regime, growing
concern about Communist influence, Matthews presented a far brighter
picture. Items from Matthews' Page One story last week:
...high point of Matthews' pre-Cuba career came during the Spanish Civil War, in which he was outspokenly partisan for the Communist-backed Loyalist forces. At one point he was reproached by Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger for having made the Loyalist situation appear brighter than it was. Recalled he, in his 1946 book, The Education of a Correspondent: "Even then, heartsick and discouraged as I was, something sang inside of me. I, like the Spaniards, had fought my war and lost, but I couldn't be persuaded that I had set too bad an example...