Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the U.S., the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, a longtime Nehru admirer, cabled a bitter protest at India's stand. Nervously, Nehru's own Foreign Office warned him that by equivocating on Hungary he was jeopardizing his position in the Asian bloc, and reducing the likelihood that any profit would come out of his forthcoming trip...
...Rates & Copying. East Germany gets few benefits from its recovery. Its best products are for export only, some 80% of its trade is with the Soviet bloc. Russia alone takes 47% of her exports of machinery, electrical equipment and optical instruments, reportedly at cut-rate prices set by the Soviets. East Germans say their steel production is up to 2,000,-ooo tons, brown coal up to 200 million tons, electricity up to 29 billion kw-h for 1,955, all double the 1936 output and way ahead of the wartime peak in 1943. Western authorities tend to accept these...
...also adopt economic sanctions against the Soviet agressors and those allies who have supported them. Certainly it should not be argued that a severe curtailment of trade would wreck the Communist economy, for the East-West volume is not that large. But the Communist bloc still depends largely upon Western Europe for much of the heavy machinery it needs to expand and industrialize, and if this supply were cut off, it would effectively limit these possibilities for the Russians...
...avowed principles of neutralism and humanity dictated such a course, but on November 11th, V.K. Krishna Menon voted with the Soviet bloc in opposing demands for Russian withdrawal from Hungary. The West was stunned, then disappointed, then cynical. Nehru seemed to be playing the hypocrite's role, that of the Machiavelli in Gandhi's clothing...
...Montevideo workers belong to unions that are dominated or influenced by Reds. Keeping up a strenuous cultural-penetration drive, the Soviet Union donates film shorts to the government, free newsreels to movie houses. Red propaganda has convinced an apparent majority of Montevideans that increased trade with the Communist bloc could be a short cut to prosperity...