Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halt. Worrisome as it is, the Communist trade offensive has not discouraged West Germany's own drive to the East. Partly because of the poor quality of 30 locomotives which Nasser bought from Communist Hungary two years ago, partly by agreeing to accept some of the price in cotton instead of cash, West Germany's Henschel Works fortnight ago snatched an Egyptian State Railways order for 108 diesel-electric locomotives away from both Russian and U.S. bidders. And in the Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial...
...Kassem's tussle with domestic Arab nationalists who favor one big Arab nation, he had won the first round. But so had his Communist allies. The sole political party left in Premier Kassem's Cabinet is now the Communist-backed National Democrats. The leading pro-Communist among the Iraqi Cabinet ministers announced that he was off this week for Moscow to work out details of the new economic deal, which would put Western oil royalties to work on a development program in which Communist advisers will have the most...
...countryside the struggle between Communists and their opponents has not been resolved. Matters came to a head in the holy city of Najaf when party militants tried to turn a Soviet embassy official's courtesy call on a Shia Moslem leader into a Communist rally. Outraged, Moslem monks and youths, holding aloft copies of the Koran, fought a pitched battle against them. Scores were hurt...
Recently the pro-Communist League of Korean Residents in Japan announced that 117,000 of Japan's Koreans had signed a petition saying they wanted to go to Communist North Korea. Though Japanese police believe that only 43,000 actually signed their names (and most of these signatures were bought by the league at $15 apiece from Koreans who needed the cash), Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama seized upon the idea...
...Communist Whittaker (Witness) Chambers, 57, rusty now in a language he could read and write passably in his literary youth, signed up for an early-dawning TV course in elementary Russian offered by Washington's George Washington University...