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...four-engine bombers and jet fighters over the reviewing stand in Red Square. The main address was delivered by rising Red star Georgy M. Malenkov. Said Politburocrat Malenkov: the U.S. is trying to enslave the whole world, outdoing the Nazis and the Japanese imperialists; at the same time, the capitalist system is approaching another disastrous depression (by lumping in "those not working a full week," Malenkov arrived at a U.S. unemployed total of 14 million). Russia, on the other hand, is surrounded by friendly neighbors* and, since the West's fiasco in China, the number of people...
Then Churchill got in his innings with a blistering 40-minute attack in which he said: "There was the old Gladstonian expression, 'Let the money fructify in the pockets of the people.' That is regarded [by the government] as a monstrous device of a decadent capitalist system...
...prosecution's charges were "unmitigated bunk," a vicious libel. The Communists merely advocated socialism as the only valid answer to the abuses of fascist capitalism, the only way to peace, freedom and security. It was not Communism which taught violence, but the tottering capitalist class which advocated it in order to save itself. Communism advocated force only after a socialistic government had been peacefully set up-as a method of preventing a counterrevolution...
...crowd clapped enthusiastically for the man who has no peer in popularity through all of India. As the plane winged away, a student voiced the national confidence: "America is a capitalist country, but Nehru will be careful to keep us out of entanglements...
Just about the only sharp disappointment the Communists suffered was in sales of a soft drink called Unita, brewed to replace Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...