Word: non-communist
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...with the four stars and unsmiling face was Henri Eugène Navarre, a quiet but steely, cultured but tough general of the French army. He had come from Paris to take command of a war that was going badly for France and the non-Communist world-a Red nightmare that had clung to the green jungles and rice fields of Indo-China for seven years...
Decided: 1) to oppose U.N. membership for Communist China "under present circumstances"; 2) to keep ANZUS as it is, in spite of the desires of Britain and some of the non-Communist Pacific countries to join in, and expand it into a general Pacific defense alliance...
Washington newsmen were astounded. No U.S. official had ever before made such a bare-faced endorsement of a political faction in the elections of a friendly country, especially where both the leading rival parties were non-Communist and professed friendship...
...that the Russians want to make friends with us." The strike was getting unpopular among the strikers themselves; presumably the Reds did not want to put too much strain on the de facto "unity of action" they had to some extent achieved among the workers, although leaders of the non-Communist unions continued to resist the blandishments of a Popular Front appeal...
Lingering Malaise. But though the government in fact had yielded much, it did so in such niggardly and haggling fashion and with such a desire to minimize its concessions that the non-Communist unions (the Catholic C.F.T.C. and the Socialist Force Ouvrière) could not show a spectacular victory. The workers went back to their jobs dissatisfied, in many cases receptive to the Communist accusation that they had been "betrayed." The strike was over, but the malaise lingered...