Vol. 71/No. 11      March 19, 2007

In a February 27 interview in the Washington Post, Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged that Guatemala is "clearly the next target" of communist insurgency in Central America, and he stated that it "soon will be a parallel case to El Salvador."

As the Militant went to press, evidence was mounting of a massive election fraud in Guatemala to favor the dictatorship's hand-picked candidate, General Aníbal Guevara.  
 
March 18, 1957
The chamber in the federal courthouse at Foley Square where a House Un-American Activities subcommittee is now holding hearings is freshly painted and decorated but a foul witch-hunt odor prevails. The committee opened a four-day session here yesterday ostensibly to investigate "mounting communist propaganda." In an opening statement, sub-committee chairman Moulder (D-Mo.) asserted that the committee's aim is to help strengthen laws designed to combat foreign and domestic "subversive" literature.

The committee devoted itself to smearing foreign-born workers as a dangerous potential for "subversion" and attempted to establish the idea that opposition to the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Middle East is equivalent to advocating force and violence.  
 
March 19, 1932
Last Sunday's presidential elections in Germany were breathlessly watched by a world torn by economic crisis and apprehensive of social convulsions.

To be sure, Hitler only rallied 11,500,000 votes to Hindenburg's 18,000,000. But when we consider that the Fascist gain amounted to some 5,000,000 votes more than the 6,400,000 they received in the Reichstag elections in 1930, and when we look at this fact objectively, dispassionately, we cannot fail to come to the conclusion that the elections reflected a tremendous and absolutely menacing advance on part of the Fascists.

The menace of Fascism hangs more heavily over the head of the German working class than ever.  
 
 
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