Word: communisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
NATO Council President Joseph M.A.H. Luns (Netherlands): Those who in the present situation talk about "disengagement," "freezes," etc. are showing a mentality that comes close to neutralism. "Communism uses these people. It cajoles them, approaches them, assures them that Western concessions, withdrawal, disengagement will open the way to lasting peace. Most disengagement plans are essentially Communist creations, designed to neutralize Germany, to make Western Europe defenseless and to force the withdrawal of allied troops from the Continent-in other words, to deprive Europe and the alliance of the main pillars on which peace rests...
...subversion, Iraq, until recently the West's strongest ally in the Middle East, is in real danger of becoming a Soviet satellite. Already the new Iraqi government has withdrawn from the Baghdad Pact, driven Britain's R.A.F. from its Habbaniyah base near Baghdad. Unless the slide toward Communism is halted, the Soviet Union will penetrate the very heart of the Middle East, outflank staunchly pro-Western Turkey and increasingly shaky Iran. Encamped at the head of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.S.R. could then render the rest of the Middle East militarily-and perhaps politically -indefensible by the West...
...Snake Charmer. The man who stands between Iraq and all-out Communism is a lean, hard-muscled and ascetic professional soldier with a fixed, snaggle-toothed smile. His name Abdul Karim Kassem. On the face of it, Karim Kassem, 44, seems a weak reed on which to rest the free world's hopes. Modest in deportment, moderate in conversation, Kassem is nonetheless inordinately and naively suspicious. (He recently asserted that one section of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad lured Iraqis in with stories that automobiles can be bought there-and then filled them with anti-Kassem talk.) Cursed...
Anti-Communists charge that the Communist bargain was urged on Kassem by his chief aide, burly, Red-lining Colonel Wasfi Tahir (who, incredibly, held the same job under Nuri). Kassem himself may have failed to see the dangers in the bargain; his enemies charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth, and not long ago he was still capable of declaring: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else, if they like...
...Protest. Had he chosen, Franco could have made at least one valid boast. From the political doghouse to which it was banished along with Franco's erstwhile friends, the Nazis and Fascists, Spain is step by step returning to the community of nations. Franco's anti-Communism and his nation's strategic peninsular location have brought him an alliance with...