Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past two years of his Administration, said the President, the U.S. has proposed and the Russians have rejected no fewer than 14 new plans to break the disarmament deadlock and to work out a foolproof agreement. Under such circumstances the U.S. has no alternative but to keep up its guard. "The power of these weapons to deter aggression and to guard world peace could be lost if we failed to hold our superiority...
Eleven-Year Silence. Poland's break with Russia was the spark. Hungarian students got permission to express sympathy with the Poles by gathering silently before Budapest's Polish embassy. Then the Central Committee of the Communist Party canceled the permit. Party Leader Erno Gero, belatedly conferring with Tito on means to "liberalize" the regime and expected back from Belgrade that day, wanted no political demonstrations. At noon there were angry student meetings in every college. At the Polytechnic a printing press was seized, a broadsheet printed. Budapest came out to see the student fun. Said an old woman...
...point of the two generalities is that, of all the satellites, Poland and Hungary have long been voted the most likely to break with their Kremlin masters. None of the others provides quite the same combination of 1) out-of-power Communist leadership with some support in the country, 2) an active and eager citizenry ready to seize opportunities. Observers in Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania reported discontent, diluted by docility, passivity and cynicism. In Czechoslovakia and East Germany, tension and ferment had the Communist rulers worried...
...state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay, an anomaly among welfare states, manages to get along without a personal income...
...Newsreels. After decades of benevolent but bumbling overgovernment, Uruguay is troubled with chronic inflation, swelling government debt, softening currency, and a tendency to break out in strikes as workers restively try to keep up with the cost of living. As a result, Communism has made some surface gains. About 100,000 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...