Which factor might have affected Anne's viewpoint
when she wrote, "Memories mean more to me than
dresses?"
"Hiding ... where would we hide? In the city? In the
country? In a house? In a shack? When, where, how..
These were questions I wasn't allowed to ask, but they
still kept running through my mind.
Margot and I started packing our most important
belongings into a schoolbag. The first thing I stuck in was
this diary, and then curlers, handkerchiefs, schoolbooks,
a comb and some old letters. Preoccupied by the thought
of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the bag,
but I'm not sorry. Memories mean more to me than
dresses."
- The Diary of a Young Girl,
Anne Frank

personal beliefs  

Explanation:

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.