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Renewed Call. As Ike appeared on the rostrum, all but the Communist-bloc leaders broke into respectful applause. Khrushchev turned on his most impassive face, fiddled with his earpiece, exchanged comments with Gromyko, gazed at his gold-banded watch, drummed his fingers now and then on his desk. Castro leaned for ward intently...
...because they started from so much farther back. And they still have a long way to go, though the Reds sometimes sally spectacularly at economic targets of opportunity, e.g., when Russia tries to capture Nasser's economy by offering to build the billion-dollar Aswan Dam for him. Communist-bloc imports and exports still make up less than 10% of world trade...
Ostensibly, the leaders of the eight Communist-bloc countries who held an "Eastern summit" in Moscow last week had gone to talk agriculture. But their final communique was all about Berlin. And it was tough. "If efforts directed at signing a peace treaty with both German states do not meet support" at the Big Four summit, it said, the Communist bloc would all sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and "on this basis solve the problem of West Berlin as well." Naturally, these sentiments were unanimously adopted...
...hard to tell the two categories apart: the Communists so completely identified themselves with Arab nationalism, hatred of Israel and opposition to Western "imperialism" that many Arab nationalists could see no difference between their own policy and that of the Soviet Union. They might not be under Communist discipline, but they were deeply under Communist influence. Item: Syrian newspapers carried no news of the Hungarian revolt except what was put out by the Russians. Friendship and trade with Russia and Communist-bloc nations increase steadily...
Both the Soviet sweet talk and the Latino sour pointed up the fact that Communist influence in Latin America has waned during the past decade. The only pro-Communist government in postwar Latin America, the Arbenz regime in Guatemala, collapsed in 1954. Communist parties are now illegal in 15 out of 20 Latin American republics. Only three south-of-the-border countries (Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay) maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Communist-bloc trade with Latin America, though expanding, amounted in 1955 to less than 5% of U.S.-Latin American trade, and Red performance on promises was ragged (TIME...