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Among the most significant phenomena at San Francisco last week was one invisible to the naked eye. It was a slow shower of feathers. The Communists' dove of peace, the bird that walks like a bear, had lost most of its plumage...
...that the last the world would see of the raddled bird? Far from it. As the Communists well knew, given a quick laundering, a brush, and a few weeks to grow its feathers back, the peace dove would look as fat and fair as ever to the party faithful and to people of short memory...
Communism's dove of peace was hatched long ago. The Russian Revolution of 1917, in fact, was achieved largely by pacifist slogans. Then the Bolsheviks went on, as Lenin knew they would, to make a bloody civil war. Since then, the dove has been more or less important in Communist mythology. To understand what happened to the dove at San Francisco, it is necessary to understand the recent rebirth of Communism's strange bird...
What finally woke up the trusting Indonesians was a raid in force one night early this month on police stations in Tanjon Priok, Jakarta's vital port area. It was carried out by 100 terrorists, carrying red flags and wearing hammer & sickle armbands incongruously decorated with the Picasso "dove of peace." They were after arms. After an all-night fight, they were finally beaten back...
...Dove's Progress