Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideological struggle, Kadar obviously meant his failure to persuade the people that his regime was good for them. In several areas the workers' councils refused to accept his decree outlawing them. According to Kadar's official Nep Szabadsag, Heves county, northeast of Budapest, was virtually a rebel stronghold whose villagers "just jeer at the order and carry on their activities ..." But Kadar's biggest headache was the coal miners. Less than half of Hungary's 100,000 miners were at work, and coal production was down an estimated 70%. Last week those coal miners...
...helping emergent peoples in Asia and North Africa, had often found its achievements compromised by the U.S. association with the colonial powers. This stigma might not have been crippling if the U.S., Britain and France had hammered out a joint approach that the Asian-African world could accept. They...
Last week the NATO powers accepted this logic. "The peoples of Eastern Europe should have the right to choose their own governments freely, unaffected by external pressure," said the final communique. In effect, this was an acceptance of the fact that, in the West's best judgment, Gomulkaism is the best the satellite peoples could hope for now-since it is perhaps the most the Russians presently dare accept...
...with the U.S. applying pressure for action, Nasser might well accept a compromise under which British salvage ships and their crews would serve in General Wheeler's forces. After all, Nasser, rather than having "gained strength" from the past month's events, has had a sizable part of his army and air force chewed up. The closing of the canal, and the consequent loss of revenue, hurts his badly strained economy...
Nehru might add that, just as he should accept the fact that the Soviet Union is what it is, so the United States should accept the fact that China is what it is. Chinese Communism is in the world to stay, and the quicker this country accepts that fact, diplomatically and practically, the better. The Prime Minister might point out that in the long run, he fears Chinese power more than Soviet power, but that the only way to mold the new China is to accept its existence. He could say to the President that with such an overwhelming popular...