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Nixon's most improbable and convincing exhibition of U.S. campaign methods was carried off before a ruined pagoda in Pegu (pop. 21,000), an ancient Burmese town 45 miles north of Rangoon. A crowd of a thousand Burmans awaited him in Pegu. Among them were a hundred Communist demonstrators carrying placards, one quaintly inscribed in English. "Go Back Warmonger, Valet of Wall Street." A sound truck blared anti-American propaganda. Nixon on arrival walked up to the nearest card carrier and said, "I notice these cards are addressed to Mr. Nixon. I am Nixon, and I'm glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: By the Old Pegu Pagoda | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Greek island of Corfu and gave themselves up. To newsmen's questions about their escape from Communism, the soldiers would say nothing, but the captain was just as outspoken in denunciation of the Reds as the two brothers who had kidnaped him. "I'd prefer 17 thousand times to stay in this country. Greece is freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: The Captain's Decision | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Harvard, for instance, amidst all the recent recrimination and fomented suspicion, there is no one who will come forward to name a single Communist among our three thousand teachers...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Pusey Rebuts Red Baiting Education Critics | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

...What attention has been paid and what respect shown to really typical member of the Harvard faculty, to the two thousand nine hundred and more others who are our true representatives?" Pusey then listed some of the more recent achievements of the Harvard faculty...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Pusey Rebuts Red Baiting Education Critics | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

Against the Harvard graduates who have been tainted with Communism, Pusey listed the "achievements of all the rest of the hundred thousand, the founders of industries, heads of corporations, directors of banks, men of unquestionable loyalty, leaders in the war effort, in all the productive activities of this country, in the cultural life of the nation, in city after city...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Pusey Rebuts Red Baiting Education Critics | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

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