And so the ground was laid for the 1956 Whig-Clio invitation to Alger Hiss, convicted perjurer and suspected spy during the McCarthy Cold War red scares of the 1950s.
Because of the strong opposition in U.S. politics to Communism during the Cold War, red has not been used for American political parties in the same way.
The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape.
After the war, his resistance to a crash programme constructing an enormously more powerful hydrogen bomb and his support for international control of atomic energy were linked by cold war red-hunters to communist leanings.
At intervals since the seventies, scholars on the left have argued that Wallace's politics — embodied most conspicuously in his run for the Presidency on the Progressive Party ticket, in 1948 — opened a window of opportunity for the advancement of labor, race, and internationalist causes, and that Cold War red-baiting closed it prematurely.
The bad guys this time are cold war Reds first seen poking around an American military base and led by Irina Spalko.
They were grappling not only with the specter of more terrorist attacks but also with the chilling memories of Cold War Red-baiting, J. Edgar Hoover's smear campaigns, and Watergate-era wiretaps.
The Cold War was red hot, and battles raged on college campuses, in the streets, in southeast Asia, at the dinner table -- battles over basic values, free speech, the draft, race discrimination, gender equality, farm worker rights, the Viet Nam War, air and water pollution, and nuclear proliferation.
He was Marxism-Leninism's poster boy, a revolutionary enfant terrible and, in a cold war firmament of red stars, the most brilliant, shining – and long-lived – exemplar of recklessly unrepentant revolutionary zeal.
In 1951, however, as a result of the Cold War and the "red scare", the CCF and labour movement acted to purge individuals (including CCF MPP Robert Carlin) suspected of being under Communist influence.
In America's cold war blacklisting and red-baiting years, Seeger was unable to perform in many venues, was excluded from college campuses and kept off television for many years.
