Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Determinedly and rapidly deployed military-diplomatic power across thousands of miles from Lebanon to Quemoy to Berlin (see map), deterred big war and two limited wars, kept Communism locked up inside its empire...
...ordered air cover for British airborne landings in Jordan. But the revolt in Iraq-and the U.S. intelligence failure to anticipate it-left the U.S. no friendly government to support, no rallying point for action. Iraq and neighboring Syria are now coiled up in a squabble between Nasserism and Communism in what might make Dulles' first big test of 1959. Year's score in the Middle East: a net loss that could have been much worse...
...cold war, the NATO governments proclaimed their intent to hold fast at Berlin. West Berliners themselves rejected Khrushchev's "free-city" plan by voting 98.1% to 1.9% against the Communist candidates in city elections. Score at halftime: West leading in defense of a key position deep in Communism's territory...
...reason: the U.S. found in Deputy Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker, a foreign aid field commander with the tactical skill needed-and deployed-to prevail upon Congress to pass 1958's $3.3 billion foreign aid appropriation. As much as it dramatized Communism's infiltration of strategic, oil-rich Venezuela, the mobbing of Vice President Nixon in Caracas (TIME, May 26) underlined the urgent need for U.S. help for orderly economic growth in the hemisphere. Needed in Latin America, Asia and Africa alike was a new climate of incentive plans to lure...
...throughout 1958 the U.S. was helped-inevitably to some, unexpectedly to others-by Communism's continuing demonstration, in the execution of Hungarian Patriots Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter, the persecution of Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak, the mass herding by Mao of millions of Chinese into communes, that Communism is by definition implacably and unchangingly sinister-hence vulnerable...