Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists have even penetrated the colony's British-built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five...
Short Term & Long Term. Less emotional Chinese businessmen have learned to appreciate the advantages of Britain's stable rule in Hong Kong, but this does not keep even anti-Communist Chinese from resenting the traditional discrimination between the ruling class and the ruled. Said one Chinese businessman: "The government policy has mellowed a little recently. Now it may be too late...
Last week Wladyslaw Gomulka, once the country's No. 1 Communist but for some time past under suspicion of being a Titoist, was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee. Vice Minister of Justice Zenon Kliszko and Minister of Construction Spychalski were also kicked out. All were denounced as "masked enemies, provocateurs, saboteurs and traitors"-a few of the epithets currently applied to Titoists by true-blue Stalinists. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, new Soviet proconsul for Poland (TIME, Nov. 21), was elected to the purified Central Committee...
Facts to Face. Western governments, Pearson warned, may soon have to do business with the Communist regime in China. "We will in due course and in consultation with other friendly governments have to recognize the facts." He thought that the military occupation of Japan should be ended as quickly as possible and a peace treaty drawn up, with Canada participating. One of his most significant remarks touched on Canada's relations with Latin America. Said Pearson: "We should broaden and deepen our association with the Latin republics of this hemisphere." That was the nearest any cabinet minister had ever...
...staff, Parker had earned a reputation as a crack reporter by such stunts as storming into tough gambling joints one jump ahead of raiding policemen. Reckless, hard-drinking Reporter Parker had also earned a left-wing reputation as a local C.I.O. official who had faithfully followed the Communist Party line...