Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly so roused against the dangers of world Communism as people in the U.S.; in fact, a large body of non-Communist leftist opinion holds that the U.S. is too upset about the Reds and not bothered enough about right-wing dictatorships. Latin America's powerful nationalist sentiment, moreover, tends ,to sympathize with Guatemala's Red-led harassment of U.S. companies...
...Corporation formed the committee so it might have a basis for deciding its course of action in case professors of the University refused to testify before Congressional investigating committees and are consequently cited for contempt of Congress. The committee informs the Corporation of faculty opinion and sentiment toward the probes...
...hated dictators like Batista, who ran on a Communist "popular front" in 1940, supported a Communist coalition in 1944, and was elected largely with the help of Communist rats as Senator in 1948-will provide both a hotbed for Red propaganda, and a terrible undertone of anti-American sentiment in a continent that is more important to U.S. defense than either Europe or Asia . . . And if such a policy should eventually lead you to lose Latin America, as you lost China, the enemy will not be facing Hong Kong, but the straits of Florida...
Without Hong Kong's cheap labor and the ingenuity of its Chinese businessmen, the U.N. embargo on trade with Red China would have led to mass unemployment in the colony, and in turn to strong pro-Communist sentiment. With the new prosperity, of home-grown industry, Communist agitators are conspicuously out of favor with Hong Kong Chinese...
There are Frenchmen who will go to almost any lengths to prevent German rearmament under EDC. Much of this sentiment exists among the nationalist adherents of Charles de Gaulle. Last month the bitter general himself said that France "is still an ally of Russia in case of German menace," and last week another Gaullist cried that "America's attempts to push France into EDC are really pushing France into the arms of Russia...