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...Democratic colleague from Georgia, "truly was a giant in the Senate." He had decisively won six elections to the Senate, the latest last November, and had been the de facto leader of his party's conservative wing. Jackson felt that his onetime comrades had turned too easy on Communism, or in some cases too hard on social programs, while he remained the archetypal cold war liberal, determined that the U.S. spend generously on guns and butter. "I don't worry about ideologies," he said. "I've been called a Communist, a socialist, a conservative...
When we think about Central America, we should remember Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Cuba, Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. As a 22-year-old who is planning to join the Navy, I say it is time America used the "big stick" to stop the spread of Communism...
...film flashes fro and to in both time and style, alternating the fluorescent glare of the late 1960s, as Daniel (Timothy Hutton) searches for the truth about his parents, with the hazy twilight glow of his parents' day, when spellbinding romantics saw a golden future for American Communism...
...think is fatal..." He meant "vital." Fair weight is given to various reasons for these lapses, but in the final analysis, the authors are led to dark speculation. Could it be, they ask, that the deeply troubled lawyer felt it was better to sacrifice his clients as martyrs to Communism than risk their eventual confessions...
...course, the death sentence that inflamed emotions throughout the world. The standard explanation for the extreme penalty is that the Korean War and the militant anti-Communism of the early '50s created a climate of fear and vengeance. But there is also ample evidence that the threat of electrocution was tactical. Ethel was arrested shortly after Julius. Federal authorities evidently hoped that the ineffectual-looking engineer would crack quickly if his wife were in jail and his bewildered children left at home. But the Rosenbergs never talked, even though confessions might have saved their lives...