Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been in a very high state of nervous tension in the last few weeks. People from Princeton say that he seems to be in a great state of strain for fear he himself will be attacked. Of course he knows that he has so much of a record of leftist activities ... It appears that he is trying to buy personal immunity from attack by turning informer . . . Some think that Fulton J. Sheen may soon announce another distinguished convert...
Peru's Foreign Office announced last week that diplomatic negotiations with Colombia in Bogotá had produced a neighborly agreement for the ending of Latin America's most celebrated case of political asylum: that of Peruvian Leftist Leader Haya de la Torre, accused of heading an abortive revolution in 1948. A refugee in Colombia's Lima embassy since 1949, Haya will probably be allowed to go into exile in Uruguay...
...Dahlem, and he took over the services there after Niemoller was arrested in 1937. Before he was drafted into the army, he had cheerfully collaborated with German Communists in the anti-Nazi resistance, and he had a European intellectual's theoretical respect for the Marxist solution. "To be leftist," he said later, "seemed a matter of honor...
...days the old Montecitorio Palace, which houses Parliament, was Rome's modern-day Colosseum and Amintore Fanfani its doomed Christian. Giuseppe Saragat, who held the power to install Fanfani and his democratic Cabinet by a thin margin, alibied that the Premier was trying to appear to be leftist, and yet was compromising with the Monarchists. "One cannot turn toward us and at the same time turn toward the right," said he in an emotional speech...
Like many Europeans, the Latinos are not nearly so roused against the dangers of world Communism as people in the U.S.; in fact, a large body of non-Communist leftist opinion holds that the U.S. is too upset about the Reds and not bothered enough about right-wing dictatorships. Latin America's powerful nationalist sentiment, moreover, tends ,to sympathize with Guatemala's Red-led harassment of U.S. companies...