Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan for Jerusalem had overwhelming support-38 nations for, 14 against, 7 abstentions. It was passed by an odd alliance of forces: the Catholic Latin American countries, which followed the Vatican line, voted with the Communist bloc, which wanted to win friends among the Arab states. The U.S., Britain and Sweden opposed the plan as- unrealistic because U.N. has no way of enforcing it against opposition from Israel and Jordan. The U.S. had favored a Swedish resolution-providing for more limited international supervision of the holy places-which had a clear chance of being accepted by Jerusalem's occupying...
...mantle on his shoulders, young Chiang had marched up the mainland to Nanking and into a new Nationalist China. He had embraced Christianity. According to his lights, he had sought to guide his nation into the mainstream of modern civilization. He had broken the warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression-only to go down before a later, greater Communist conspiracy and the corruption which grew up in his own war-torn regime. No national leader had fought armed Communism longer or more tenaciously...
Menzies promised to stop bureaucratic highhandedness, also promised to outlaw the weak Australian Communist Party. The Dominion social welfare program (old-age pensions since 1909, maternity benefits since 1912) was not a campaign issue. Menzies will retain it in full...
...shot. But when the Russians moved into Germany, they seized on Grotewohl as a handy tool in their drive to capture the German Socialist Party. In a big shot's place at last, Grotewohl presided over the 1946 "merger" of the Eastern zone's Socialist and Communist parties into the new Socialist Unity Party, which meant in fact Grotewohl's complete surrender to the Reds...
Recently Grotewohl's conscience, and the scorn of his former Socialist friends, seemed to trouble him. Last year he paid a secret call on U.S. and British officials in Berlin, offered to desert the Communists and work for the West. His only condition was that the Socialists in the Western zone welcome him back into the party. Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher scornfully refused. Grotewohl continued serving the Russians. When the Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians...