Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already the U.S.S.R., by sacrificing "the civilian sector" of its economy, had passed the U.S. in the quantity and quality of many high-priority weapons. The Russian atomic stockpile, long smaller and less diversified than the U.S.'s, is now growing to the point where Communism can inflict grievous damage. The U.S.S.R. has a force of modern jet bombers with electronic defenses, a fleet of 4OO-plus submarines, even an arsenal of operational medium-range ballistic missiles with which the Communists can now attack targets in Japan, Formosa, and most of Western Europe (but the U.S.S.R.'s intercontinental...
...U.S.S.R.'s greatest and growing advantage is that Communism, by its nature, is ready to strike the first blow and need prepare only for the war it proposes to fight, while the U.S., by its nature, must be defensive and gear its planning and procurement to any possible form of attack at any possible time...
Tightening Alliances. For all the chronic talk among U.S. allies about neutralism, fear of Communist prowess, weakness of frail economies, inability to make sacrifices, U.S. allies as well as the U.S. have "an equal interest" in withstanding Communism in all-out or limited war. It is therefore in the equal interest of the U.S. and U.S. allies to 1) pool scientific and technical resources and brainpower, 2) tighten allied interdependence in command, 3) keep U.S. forces deployed in NATO's airpower and ground-power shield, 4) provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans...
...Delhi, Prime Minister Nehru agreeably surprised a group of 36 world-touring newsmen by publicly criticizing Communism. Said Nehru: "I am unconcerned with Communist economics, but politically I dislike it for two reasons. Firstly, it tends too easily to violence and I am against violence. Secondly, Communism has not shown the regard for standards that I should like to see observed...
...American," joined the Communist Party in 1933, quit after the Worker rejected his off-the-line review of Gone With the Wind, soon became a nationally bylined Hearst exposé specialist. A special investigator for the late Senator McCarthy, Rushmore testified before House committees as an "expert witness" on Communism, earned the Wisconsin Senator's praise as "one of our outstanding Americans at this time." After a much-publicized feud with Lawyer Roy Cohn, Pundit George Sokolsky and other pro-Joes, Rushmore was fired by the Hearst press "for economy reasons," signed on with Confidential, resigned as editor before...