Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese comrades have conducted a surreptitious agitation against the principles of the Moscow Declaration" of December 1960, particularly the doctrine of "peaceful coexistence. ¶I The Chinese have tried to "discredit the leadership of the Soviet Communist Party and have sought to extend their influence to other Communist parties," particularly in France and Albania. They have made the Chinese embassy in Bern the control center for European subversion against Moscow...
...Items: ¶Said Richard Cardinal Gushing of the society and its founder, Robert Welch: "Everyone must salute the efforts of sincere and dedicated men who engage in anti-Communist efforts. Robert Welch is such a man. On the other hand, we must deplore the exaggeration and excesses which discredit even a good thing. Anyone who suggests that President Eisenhower promoted Communist causes is speaking in absurdities."¶U.S. Communist Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 70, solemnly refuted Welch's charge that Ike was a "conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy"' "That's ridiculous, of course." The society...
Responding to the Eastland charges, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History and national sponsor of Sane, said the committee's motive "is to discredit the whole peace and disarmament movement by linking it to communism...
...disobedience such as Uphaus will have to adjust their news to the idea that this defiance of the Court rests on the same grounds as that of many segregationists. Finally, if New Hampshire is not to repeat the story of Willard Uphaus, to its own national and perhaps international discredit, its leaders and people must cure themselves of their stultifying suspicion of the foreign and unfamiliar...
...theater practice for students without professional aspirations, does it follow that no instruction or advice should be offered to such avocational students? I don't think it does. After all, they perform before a public which has a right to expect some competence, their work necessarily reflects credit or discredit on play and playwrights, their work is (or anyway can be) educational for themselves and their audiences (an acting group concerned only with its own rewards deserves no public), and students actors are usually, in name and in fact, associated with the college, which itself has (one hopes) some artistic...