Word: communism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guarding America's children against classroom Communism-or any other dogma-is a good cause; no instructor who propagandizes during working hours should teach youngsters of "tender" or any other age. But the Legislature and the Board of Regents have created a protection system which provides quite a primer for New York's children, who should be learning what democracy is really like...
...train of thought that devaluation will greatly add to the economic strength of the West and that consequently there should be little to fear. "Russia may be rubbing her hands right now in hopes the British worker will have to cut his tandard of living by such degrees that Communism will easily be able to take over Britain...
Russia stood to gain from her atom bomb if it scared Europe's people into clamoring for appeasement of Communism, but the West itself stood to gain more: a new clarity of common purpose. The atom bomb in Russian hands was something so ominously specific that it was almost certain to impel a brand of Western unity which otherwise might be years in the forging. Plain common peril might be translated into plain common courage. Moscow's atom-smashing made obsolete no major part of a political strategy that embraced the Atlantic pact, U.S. military aid to Europe...
Somber Spirits. One of the Assembly's grimmest moments came when Dr. T. F. Tsiang, representing Nationalist China's crumbling government, rose to speak. Said he: "During the past two years, while the dike from the Persian Gulf to Scandinavia was built against the flood of Communism, the Far East has been inundated . . . Can the United Nations maintain its prestige . . . by ignoring what has taken place in my country? . . . I appeal to the General Assembly to be brave enough to embrace the vision of one indivisible world and not to retreat to the false illusory security of half...
...could visualize hordes of Communist-trained Chinese troops swarming across Siberia to tear down Western civilization, I'd get excited. But I can't see it. It's not in the nature of the Chinaman to be a Communist. Moscow can't organize China for Communism, even if Moscow tries its damndest...