Word: leftishness
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...hours-long conferences with the Turks, Iranians and the Arab monarchs. In the intricate situation that Henderson was exploring, President Eisenhower had set a diplomatic keynote that had a Loy Hendersonian ring. In taking up public positions on diplomatic items such as whether to call Syrian plotters "men of leftish leanings" or "Communists," said the President, the true diplomat should never commit himself irretrievably. "Always," he said, "give your enemy a line of retreat...
Jagan's P.P.P. is favored in the battle of four leftish parties largely because the British gave him two major assists. First, they booted him out of office in 1953 before the people could be disillusioned at his lack of an overall program and his patent lack of administrative ability. Says one rival politician: "He should have been allowed enough rope to hang himself." Thus, to the voters, Jagan is still a martyred hero. Then, after belatedly setting up an $84 million emergency-aid program to quiet rising discontent, the British ruined the effect by slowing down expenditures...
...Yaleman William Buckley Jr. kicked up a noisy foofaraw with his God and Man at Yale, which accused Old Eli of subverting both capitalism and Christianity. Later, Patricia Buckley published an article in The Freeman accusing Vassar of having a leftish tinge. In a letter to her fellow alumnae, Aloise made much the same charge against Smith. U.S. higher education managed to survive-but it will not soon forget the Buckleys...
...officials have discounted such reports, though the State Department conceded last week that the newest Syrian Cabinet was more leftish than State anticipated. Syria was the most outspoken Arab country in acclaiming Soviet "intervention"' at the time of last November's Middle East ceasefire. When the Russians intervened with murder and treachery in Hungary, Syrian newspapers printed nothing but Tass accounts of what went on in Budapest. Last week's Cabinet change reflected a coming into the open, if not coming fully to power, of the pro-Soviet and pro-Nasser clique headed by the Syrian army...
...Brazil's crucial economic problems, he wanted to dispel the notion that he is a leftist with links of some sort to Brazil's illegal Communist Party. Kubitschek is actually a middle-roader, a founding member of the moderately conservative Social Democratic Party, but he accepted a leftish Labor Party leader as his vice-presidential running mate. On top of that, he failed to reject the Communist Party's bandwagon-climbing endorsement. Inevitably, opponents labeled him a left-winger as well. Said Kubitschek at a Washington press conference: "I am not in debt...