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Out there in Iowa, the daughter of a bank president was arrested for embezzling $2 million from the local bank, which sum she dispersed in charitable activities. Out there in Washington, they say that what the people can’t do, or do so well, for themselves, the government must do.

In a 20,000-word interpretation of the new 81-nation Communist Manifesto, Nikita Khrushchev stated that the United States is the main “bulwark of world reaction” and “the enemy of the peoples of the world.” Communism will soon reach its goal of “raising the Red flag over all the world.” “Peaceful coexistence” means “a form of intense economic, political and ideological struggle between the proletariat and the aggressive camp of imperialism.” Communist conquest is possible by such means, but will be carried out by open violence and war “if the ruling classes resist.” Meanwhile, Communists support all “liberation” wars such as Lumumba’s war against the West in the Congo, the Pathet Lao’s war against the U.S. in Laos, and “the sacred war” of the FLN against France and the West in Algeria. We hope that President Kennedy was not too preoccupied with the inaugural ceremonies, and festivities, to have overlooked so frank an “exchange of views.”

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Out there in Iowa, the daughter of a bank president was arrested for embezzling $2 million from the local bank, which sum she dispersed in charitable activities. Out there in Washington, they say that what the people can’t do, or do so well, for themselves, the government must do.

In a 20,000-word interpretation of the new 81-nation Communist Manifesto, Nikita Khrushchev stated that the United States is the main “bulwark of world reaction” and “the enemy of the peoples of the world.” Communism will soon reach its goal of “raising the Red flag over all the world.” “Peaceful coexistence” means “a form of intense economic, political and ideological struggle between the proletariat and the aggressive camp of imperialism.” Communist conquest is possible by such means, but will be carried out by open violence and war “if the ruling classes resist.” Meanwhile, Communists support all “liberation” wars such as Lumumba’s war against the West in the Congo, the Pathet Lao’s war against the U.S. in Laos, and “the sacred war” of the FLN against France and the West in Algeria. We hope that President Kennedy was not too preoccupied with the inaugural ceremonies, and festivities, to have overlooked so frank an “exchange of views.”