Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such anti-Communist nations as Britain, France, Spain and Portugal abstain from condemning Red China's suppression of Tibet? See FOREIGN NEWS, The Patient...
Moscow, and hence the whole Communist world, into formally proclaiming the Algerian revolt a "just war of colonial liberation...
...Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino's consul general to Belgium and Liechtenstein. "They couldn't spare anyone from San Marino," explained Baron von Fab-Fein, "because of the political problems there. The Communist opposition has been sentenced to ten years in jail. How ridiculous can you get-putting politicians in jail...
...Abstentions. When the vote was finally taken in the U.N. General Assembly. 45 nations approved a resolution implicitly "deploring" Red China's aggression in Tibet, and all nine nays were Communist. Red China thus stood roundly condemned before the world for its actions. But significantly, 26 nations abstained on the resolution. Among the abstainers, besides India, were such decidedly anti-Communist nations as France, Britain, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon explained that his country has misgivings about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants...
...seems to me," wrote A. Usakovsky, a foreman at Moscow's Likhachov Automobile Plant, "that many of those who get married in church do so not because they believe in God but because they like the ritual with its solemnity and color." Even the Communist Party had to agree that Soviet weddings could hardly be more drab. Izvestia, carried away with the monotony of it all, even offered prizes for those who could think up elaborate and colorful rituals to substitute for Christian baptism, a coming-of-age ceremony that would correspond to confirmation, and a new wedding ritual...