Venencio Guarduce Quotes
There is always a perception on the part of the military that ... organizations voicing dissent are communist fronts.
Venencio Guarduce, Member, Philippine House of Representatives, Quoted in The Washington Post, November 27, 1988
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Reacting to accusations that he was soft on communism:
He finally had to. In the government of national reconciliation, the Fascists—called Conservatives after WWII—were led by Don Manuel and he took the second place while the Republicans with the majority had the Prime Ministership. The Communists were part of the Republican coalition as they had been in the Civil War.
Parliamentary representatives of the Communist Party shall not introduce or support reform measures.
The Party line at the time was that any reform of the democratic institutions of America would simply delay the complete revolution. Let things get worse and then act; don’t try and fix them.
The Kuomintang nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek tried to stay in power in China, but their corruption and incompetency at government lost them the support of most of the Chinese. The Chinese communists took over the government. The Nationalists then invaded the offshore island of Taiwan but claimed to be the rightful government of all of China. For many years they controlled the Chinese seat in the UN and they refused to recognize the fact that they had failed to gain the loyalty of the Chinese people.
The president was surprised by the rapid spread and expansion of the anti-war movement at the time was convinced that the communists were organizing the effort. After all the investigations and histories, it was an extremely fast growing movement—perhaps the first of the digital political movements as e-mail was one of the tools used in the universities where e-mail was then coming into use.
For years the Nationalist Military under Chiang Kai-shek and other Generals like Ma Hongkui had murdered suspected communist politicians, and in the Civil War with the communists rarely took any prisoners. The Communists in turn, “tried” and executed landlords and other major capitalists who had previously in their view treated the peasants badly and were responsible for much starvation. Neither side had any scruples about ignoring human rights and committing war crimes.
This is a classic example of one of the many politicians of the 20th and 21st century who would call anyone a communist who opposed anything that he regarded as American. In actuality, there were some very conservative economists and shareholders who did not think that the funding of celebrations had little or no value for shareholders. Many on the left were concerned that the celebration was in great part paid for by all Americans because of the tax deduction that was allowed. However none were communists.
who worked with the Communists. The Communists were to Flip-flop again when Russia needed arms and assistance to fight Hitler when the pact broke down. See {595773}
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In 1921 an Paul E. De Mott, an American Quaker famine relief worker in Germany was arrested as a "Bolshevik" and murdered without trial. American correspondents heard about the crime and asked for a statement from the chief American diplomat in Germany.