Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clear Provision. By week's end, be-leagured David Lilienthal had a public change of heart. Hereafter, he declared, the AEC would demand an anti-Communist affidavit from all applicants. The private National Research Council (which had been picking the fellows for AEC) agreed to this procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would...
...Germany, where the Russians had staged an election for a People's Congress in the Soviet zone (TIME, May 23), they received a stinging slap in the face. Communist Party workers got out the vote, all right, but the vote was heavily antiCommunist. The Communist press had predicted an overwhelming victory, obviously expecting the customary Red majority of 90-plus percent. The Russians resorted to their usual poll shenanigans; e.g., they counted as "yes" votes all write-in ballots with remarks like "No more concentration camps!" and "Liberty!" Nevertheless, after mulling the returns over for two days, the Russians...
...election served clear notice that the Communists could not within the foreseeable future hope to win power anywhere in Germany, except by force. It also indicated that the Soviet propaganda line-that Moscow stands for peace and the West stands for war-had reached the point of sharply diminishing returns. Europe now saw that, after the West had raised its ramparts against Communist expansion, the threat of war had receded...
...Russians, paid their workers in East zone marks, although most live in the Western sectors. Those workers wanted their wages in West marks (the only legal tender where they live, and four times the value of the East marks). Last week, 16,000 workers of the non-Communist Independent Railway Workers Union walked...
...Soviet-run German railway authorities thought they knew what to do about that; they ordered strikebreakers into action. Armed trains bearing police reinforcements and carloads of young Communist shock troops began to pour into West Berlin elevated and railroad stations. The strikebreakers barricaded themselves inside a dozen Berlin stations...