Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Party slides into minority status, groups within the party have looked about to find what could be salvaged from the wreckage. With the southern wing standing just as pat as it has for 70 years, the job of reclamation has been left to that movement of many colors--the Democrat left. Within this heterogeneous mass has risen a vast confusion over aims and a debilitating internecine strife over fundamentals, with treatment of the Communists lying at the heart of the difficulty. Strained Russian-American relations have transformed Communism from a wartime ally into the greatest red herring...
...candidate Alf Landon dropped into the White'House for a chat, came out beaming and declaring that Harry looked fine. The Duke of Windsor stopped in for a chat. He thought the President looked "in great shape." Ex-Kansas Governor, ex-War Secretary Harry Woodring, a deep-dyed Democrat, was so moved by the President's new vigor that he prophesied his re-election in 1948, along with a Democratic Congress...
...American students will associate with Reds. Everybody concerned knows this. They will also associate with laborite, socialist, Christian democrat, Kuomintang, Congress Party, Moslem, anarchist, and every other conceivable kind of student, except Fascist, against whom we all have rather a prejudice. The IUS is a little United Nations, and everybody is in it, even Russians...
There would be some justification for the use of American tanks and machine guns in the forty U. S. equipped divisions, if, by giving this materiel, America were helping a democratic government subdue a rebellious minority harmful to an enlightened program. But in spite of the tactful whitewash masking the Kuomintang government, the reports trickling out of China point to Chiang, not as a liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders...
...know what President Conant's party affliations are, nor do I know wiht certainty that he is interested in the job; but, whether he is a Democrat or a Republican, his scientific accomplishment, his demostrated executive ability, his talent for working with people, and his liberal views and democratic ideals qualify him eminetly; and I believe he would capture the imagination of the American people as no other candidate could. Warren J. Greene...