Word: 21st
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the far corners of the globe this week the elite of the Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China's Chou En-lai arrived by plane, leaving Mao and the rest of the Chinese leadership behind, obviously preoccupied. In Chou's wake moved lesser lights, ranging from East Germany's Walter Ulbricht down to James Jackson, the U.S. Communist Party's secretary for Southern and Negro affairs...
...blaze of flags, six processions filed into Washington's Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul one day last week. In the last procession, robed in white, red and black, walked a slight, silver-haired grocer's son from Oshkosh, Wis. to be installed as the 21st Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A...
Besides suggesting that there is still party opposition to be uprooted, this report indicated that Boss Khrushchev is demanding even more self-incriminating confessions before or during the 21st Party Congress, which opens Jan. 27. The rhetoric of accusation is increasing in intensity. State Prosecutor Roman Rudenko recently accused Malenkov & Co. of having "committed criminal violations of Soviet legality." In the old days, using the word criminal was the first ritual step to a show trial and execution. How much does Khrushchev need victims now? At the very least, some of Khrushchev's old comrades, now in disgrace, will...
...Central Committee Plenum while it was going on. By this precedent-smashing maneuver, Nikita Khrushchev sought to broadcast as swiftly and dramatically as possible his speech signaling a shift in Soviet agricultural policy. Acting so abruptly, in such untimely fashion just six weeks before the 21st Party Congress is due to meet, Boss Nikita gave many the idea that he was in something of a sweat...
...peaceful retirement to think about all his old victims? Even though Serov is an old collaborator of Khrushchev's, Nikita is said to have little liking for him. Serov's removal was generally regarded as a show of liberalization by Khrushchev before next month's 21st Party Congress. Other more complex motivations may be involved, but dictators cannot be blamed, for their own safety, for not wanting to have the same secret police boss in power too long...