Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds, the U.S. Government has fattened the Information Service budget for Latin America and broadened the lending program of the Export-Import Bank. But the most important barrier to Red penetration is the Latin Americans' own common-sense awareness of Communist aims and methods. From a Communist viewpoint, last week's reaction to Moscow's "mutual advantage" line was hardly encouraging...
Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, disputed the common viewpoint that the press is controlled by liberals. He named the Hearst, Scripps-Howard, and Gannett papers and the Chicago Tribune as examples of powerful right wing newspapers...
...colored man's misfortunes, the NAACP drives racists and other less enlightened Southerners to intensify repression. He maintains that meanwhile there is no "Negro organization, philanthropic or agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South." Mr. Halberstam, despite his later denial of any partial viewpoint, strongly implies that the NAACP would be well advised to transform itself completely from an effective political pressure group to a neighborhood clean-up, paint-up, fix-up organization...
...experts are also a great source of information about a region. Last year in the Middle East program, for example, a labor delegation from Iran passed through Cambridge, and gave the students the first non-governmental view of the country they had seen. "It was refreshing to get their viewpoint," recalls Richard N. Frye, associate professor of the Middle East Program. "They gave us an impression of the country vastly different from the usual reports...
...Debate Council, the U.N. Council, the Society for Minority Rights, the World Federalists, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. If the Young Republicans really fear "left-wing" domination--which hardly seems justified--the most effective action open to them would be to join, and put more weight behind the conservative viewpoint...