Word: pro-communist
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...Guatemala's anemic anti-Communist opposition still nursed the faint hope that President Jacobo Arbenz might become fed up with his Red allies and disavow them, that hope was blacked out last week by the most forthright pro-Communist declaration the President has ever uttered. In a 2½ hour report to Congress on the state of the nation, Arbenz called the Communists "progressive democratic forces" and "the very wellspring of our regime." He said that to turn against the Reds and repress them, as "certain landowner groups and agents of foreign monopolies" have urged, "would be ... suicide...
...such pro-Communist activities, the government's two new bills offered drastic alternatives. One of them would rule out almost all political activity by teachers, public and private. The other proposes to put all teachers into the formal status of government civil servants...
While editorialists debated and the Teachers Union held loud, anti-government rallies in protest, ordinary citizens were puzzled, but generally more disturbed by the pro-Communist teachers than by the prospect of a revived thought control. Said a Tokyo housewife after her two children had brought anti-government pamphlets home from school: "I have my misgivings about the government's bills, but if the teachers are sending such leaflets to our homes through our children, I hope the laws will be passed immediately...
John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, yesterday answered Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's charges that he was an author of pro-Communist literature...
McCarthy had said last week that Fairbank was one of the "pro-Communist" authors whose books were found by his Investigating Committee on the shelves of the State Department's overseas libraries...