Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris' Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...
...Boss's son warmed up with dialectic ballyhoo for Soviet Air Forces Day. Declaring that the Russians had invented the airplane and the helicopter, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, 30, zoomed further into the wild blue yonder. Said he: "How miserable and colorless are the air shows in the capitalist countries ... On the very face of it, the bourgeois airman, who is both a bandit and a businessman, has little in common with what we call an air festival. Our airmen carry life and happiness on their wings...
...Cultural regimentation has emaciated the ancient charm of Chinese life. Capitalist silks and floral robes have been replaced by the proletarian look: narrow blue pants and drab, high-necked tunics for men & women alike...
Sitting down to a breakfast of two boiled eggs with some Communist cronies somewhere in China, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Britain's white-eaved "Red Dean" of Canterbury, told his delighted friends about capitalist misery back home. "In England we never see eggs," he chortled. "I see here you have plenty...
...Allies!" For that, he was suspended for 20 sessions (later reduced to four) and forced to make an apology which he obviously did not mean. To Adenauer's first proposal to bring together Germany and her Western neighbors, Schumacher replied: "No! to all [such] conservative, clerical, capitalist, cartelist attempts." The Schuman Plan is a near-relative of a proposal Kurt Schumacher has long urged, "socialized integration" of Western Europe's industry, but Schumacher issued a steely nein to the Schuman Plan because there was no socialism in it. "Federation," he argued, "must not be confused with a syndicate...