Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seed-Time. In 1948 Lysenko got official Communist endorsement for his "theories," which meant that anyone who challenged them was setting himself up against the party. A new wave of dismissals and Siberian imprisonments engulfed rival biologists and geneticists. In 1956, in the period of destalinization, Lysenko suffered partial eclipse. Party chieftains criticized his theories, and official journals exposed reports by his supporters as fakes; many of his victims were rehabilitated and reinstated. Soviet biology began to recover as a science...
...heady moments last week the Deputies of Gaullist France almost succeeded in recreating the wrangling course of the Fourth Republic. "The representatives of the working class have been arbitrarily reduced," bawled Communist Waldeck Rochet. "We are only ten Deputies for 4,000,000 voters." From somewhere in the rear of the great half-shell that houses the National Assembly, a voice shouted back: "That's ten too many." A right-wing Deputy's ironic reference to "how times have changed" brought Premier Michel Debre himself to his feet. "One thing has not changed," roared the testy Debre...
Ever since Khrushchev's sweeping denunciation of Stalin, Nenni, a 1952 Stalin Peace prizewinner, has been making noises about breaking his 14-year-old alliance with Italy's 2,000,000-strong Communist Party. Nenni condemned the Russian smashing of the Hungarian revolt, and privately he calls the Reds "black beasts." With this in mind, Fanfani designed his semi-Socialist program partly to tempt the Nenni Socialists into part-time support of his government. Alarmed, the right-wing Christian Democratic faction of ex-Premier Guiseppe Pella warned Fanfani that they would leave the party if they were "betrayed...
...while he was neither ready to help Fanfani nor to climb down one bit from his neutralist foreign policy, Nenni was ready at last to break his formal "unity of action" pact with the Reds. Over stormy protests from pro-Communist members of the party, the delegates voted by a 3-to-2 margin to end the "popular front" electoral alliance with the Communists. Cooperation with the Reds will continue in trade unions, local governments and cooperatives. At the moment, this amounted to not much of a break for Nenni, and none at all for Fanfani...
...exodus began last September. On the holiest of Jewish holy days, Yom Kippur, word spread through Bucharest synagogues that after six long years their prayers had been answered. The Communist Rumanian government was registering Jews for permits to leave for Israel...