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...allies are generally confused as to whether we are following a policy of containment, liberation or destruction of Communism. Reston opined that the government is not try in to destroy Communism per se, and cannot reconcile a policy of liberation with the "enlightened self-interest" of the United States...
...people were terrified, since it was the first time they had ever heard a loudspeaker." But they turned out, 1,500 strong, to see a Walt Disney health film projected on the cleanest whitewashed wall that Agudelo could find. The villagers heard more about the inoculations at Mass: el señor cura read a "spot" announcement written for him by Agudelo, saying the inoculations were a good thing. In school, the teachers said...
During his first year of door-knocking, Rivera popped in on 25 first-grade classes, giving each 20 minutes, twice a week. The children soon eagerly awaited the visits of "el señor Rivera." Avoiding any appearance of "teaching," el señor concentrated on training his pupils' ears, getting his little hosts to think as well as speak in Spanish. With pictures or the actual objects involved, he engaged the children in increasingly fluent chats about such commonplaces as food, animals, colors, clothing and toys. To measure progress, Rivera, showing a drawing of a man, would...
...Señora & Señorita. The lessons were soon the talk of El Paso. Some parents, embarrassed because their kids casually chattered with maids whom the adults falteringly addressed in crude "kitchen Spanish," persuaded Superintendent Brown to start grownups' classes in conversational Spanish. Under Brown's guidance, Rivera has branched out into radio & TV programs aimed at putting thousands more in the area on a bilingual footing. This year Dr. Brown assigned two more classroom visitors (a señora and a señorita) to the circuit, which now takes in the second grade...
Difficult questions arise when a witness is asked if he now is or ever has been a member of the Communist party. The Internal Security Act of 1950 provides "Neither the holding of office nor membership in any Communist organization by any person shall constitute per se a violation of...this section or of any other criminal statute." Whether this refers only to federal statutes or was intended to include state statutes as well is not clear, but the section tends to militate against immunity when the question is asked with reference to a federal offense. Certainly the fact that...