Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...March. Innocently worded, it simply condemned atomic bombing as aggression; it did not mention other kinds of aggression-like the Korean. At ballparks, in subways and factories, on street corners, the partisans solicited signatures. "Who isn't for peace? I'll sign," was the reaction of the guileless, the dupes, the muddled. Day after day, the Worker whooped it up, ran advertisements ("The Celebrated Soviet Novelist Alexander Fadeyev Has Signed the Stockholm Peace Appeal"). Those who refused to sign were pictured snarling: "No, I don't want peace; I'm a fascist beast...