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Noisy Abroad. What Castro does get is assistance in his propaganda war against "Yankee imperialism." In Washington last year, President López Mateos called the Cuban revolution nationalist nonCommunist. Eight months later, when Cuba's touring puppet President turned up in Mexico after having been rebuffed en route by Argentina's President Frondizi and Venezuela's Betancourt, López Mateos went down to the airport, gave him a warm abrazo and a warm word: "We are linked to Cuba by similar aspirations for justice." At the Organization of American States' San José meeting...
...Communists made Mao Tun, a nonCommunist, their Minister of Culture, and sent him shuttling around the world to peace and cultural congresses. At Peking's Second Congress of Writers and Artists in 1953, he prodded his fellow Red lettermen: "The heroes of our fiction are drab and colorless creatures of abstraction. Many of our artists still lack the courage to write about the contradictions in our social life. They turn our rich experience into one-sided affairs, molded to fit an arid formula...
...least to abstain from voting against a Fanfani government. While some Italians saw this as the long-discussed "opening to the left," which would take the Christian Democrats down the road to more statism, Social-Democrat Leader Saragat himself argued otherwise. Confronted with a clear choice of supporting a nonCommunist, pro-Western Socialist position, the elusive Nenni would either have to go along, or stand revealed as a hopeless lackey of Moscow...
Generally, the Overseas Chinese have tried to stay out of the ideological battles of their homeland, or out of fear or self-interest have played both sides. Many, while insisting they are nonCommunist, are privately proud of how well Red China stood off the white man's armies in Korea. Though appalled by reports of conditions in Red China, they can be heard to say, in the words of a leading Singapore merchant: "For once, Overseas Chinese feel we have a strong mother country to whom we can turn if everything else fails...
...quit the concert stage because of politics. I see now that I should have gone on with my work." To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist. Rumbled Robeson: "These nice people are trying to make me as they want me-to save me from my better self. I have not changed my views in the slightest about anything!" His afterthought: "I must make a speech after I sing...