Word: procommunists
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...what its readers want to read. Some newspaper editors claim they have certain principles. I call them inhibitions. I do not have any." Untrammeled by principles, Publisher Karanjia has boosted Blitz's circulation to 50,000, made it the biggest weekly in English in India. Blitz is openly proCommunist, in every issue has wild stories of murder, rape and crime, and lying tales about Americans. One article quoted a nonexistent American wire service called "USI" as saying that President Truman was insane and locked in the White House; "dispatches" from Korea picture American generals staging wild orgies featuring parades...
...small core of I.P.R. officials and staffers, who were proCommunist, also carried the main burden of I.P.R. activities behind a screen of non-Communist officials and contributors to the institute. To the I.P.R. protest that most writing in the institute's periodicals was nonCommunist, the committee answered: "NonCommunist or 'neutral writing' plus . . . pro-Communist writing means, whatever the exact percentages, a net pro-Communist effect...
...before the McCarran subcommittee with a 50-page statement that bristled with some of the angriest denunciation ever directed by a witness to a congressional inquiry. Lattimore's statement (released to the press before he took the stand) categorically denied that he had ever been a Communist or proCommunist. It minimized his influence on U.S. policymaking and said that actually he stood for containment of Communism, Point Four and peace. It berated the McCarran inquiry as "stacked" against him, accused it of launching "a reign of terror" against U.S. diplomats. Not since the late Harold Ickes had any polemicist...
...have known Davies a long time but I have never heard of this proposal (to help the C.I.A. in the Far East)," Fairbank said. "I have never been connected with C.I.A. or heard of Munson before. These allegations of being 'procommunist' richochet around and get expanded in the process, so I have sent another denial to the papers on the chance that five column headlines of baseless accusations can be counteracted by two inches of truth on the editorial page...
...National Council for American Education. Founded in 1946, the council claims to be "devoted ... to the eradication of Marxism and Collectivism from our Schools," and its devotion has led it to publish scores of tracts and pamphlets. It has "exposed" the "Red-ducators" of Harvard University (it lists 76 "proCommunist" professors), of Columbia (87), Chicago (60), and Yale (30). It has denounced federal aid to education as a sure step towards Communism, has charged that "90% of texts and teaching in our schools today are in considerable measure subversive [to] basic American principles...