Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHINA IS A MONUMENTAL MESS. This was the verdict of one Western diplomat last week as representatives of 87 countries, including Nikita Khrushchev, flew into Peking to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Communist rule. Not far from Nikita's side was a shadowy figure named Liu Shao-chi-the sort of human blur most people overlook. But nobody should overlook Liu. who is the man in charge of the organization charged with holding Red China together. See FOREIGN NEWS'S COVER...
...critical basic problems about the future of Berlin or Germany were even touched upon, much less settled. But the removal of the deadline did help gain time, and both President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter feel strongly that time works in the West's favor. As Communist leaders are forced by their own internal conditions to pay more attention to consumer demands, as more of their citizens receive the mind-opening benefits of education, the likelihood becomes increasingly great for a liberalized system of government with which the West can live...
...seen them broken without the blinking of an eye. This time, if the Soviet leader really meant what he said, it appeared that at least some few forward steps had been taken toward creating a peaceful atmosphere. But if, on the other hand, all the talk was just more Communist bunkum, then in terms of world hopes raised and dashed, the Khrushchev trip could only be a fiasco. In either case, it was certainly not yet time for the free world to relax its guard...
...left his law books once more to help found the Christian Democrat Party in the 1940s, and since 1944 has regularly held Cabinet posts in the government. As Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1950, he drafted the land-reform bills that helped turn back Italy's rising Communist tide, ultimately freed nearly 2,000,000 acres of privately owned land for distribution among 150,000 peasants. Two hundred and fifty of those acres came from Segni's own estate...
...extensive areas on its side of the Himalayas (including some 6,000 sq. mi. of Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier village of Muong Het found that it had been taken by Communist troops...