Word: leftism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, faced by dissension from those who wanted a more intensive leftism, Mollet told a party congress: "If tomorrow the party wishes to form other policies, for example, a foreign policy called neutralism, or domestically, to travel part of the road with the Communists, then it will be someone beside myself who will make these policies...
Unlike his fellow neutralist Nehru, who abominates home-grown Communists, Banda gave the full scope and support of his office to the island's most militant Marxist, shock-haired Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena, 58. A shouting, sarong-clad union boss who learned his leftism in the U.S.-at the University of Wisconsin and in Manhattan's Union Square-Gunawardena built his power month after month. By tying up island transport in incessant union warfare against rival Marxists, Gunawardena drove Banda to nationalize all buses Jan. 1. Later in the month, after even rougher bullyboy tactics by Gunawardena...
...near Mexico City. A brave but unflamboyant fighter in the flamboyant Mexican revolution, Avila Camacho climbed the ranks to Minister of National Defense under President (1934-40) Lázaro Cárdenas, who then helped Avila Camacho get elected. Wartime President Avila Camacho junked Cárdenas' leftism, lined his country up on the Allied side, relaxed the government's historic anticlericalism by his famed statement, "I am a believer...
Likewise, in the case of Oppenheimer, it is apparently not the bulk of somewhat shop-worn charges of leftism which prompts the present suspension, but rather the one sensational fact that Oppenheimer misjudged the importance of the H-bomb project...
...most shameful surrenders to political expediency I have ever seen. He employed a sophisticated manner resembling McCarthyism. He seems to have purposely forgotten that ADA was formed in 1947 by militant anti-Communist Liberals to fight Communism. His implied charge of 'leftism' in the ADA is as foolish as it is vicious...