Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio once again went on the air with the Arab world's most arresting radio show: the proceedings of Iraq's notorious People's Court. First came 3½ minutes of whooping and hollering.by the Red-paid claque that dominated the crowd in the courtroom. Then Communist-lining Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, the court's presiding judge, wandered through 20 minutes of invective against the leaders of Nasser's U.A.R. ("gangsters and robbers") and praise for Iraq's President Abdul Karim Kassem ("leader of the whole Arab nation"). At last, airily dismissing a defense...
Four days after Tabakchali's conviction came news that he and 18 other Iraqi officers involved in the Mosul revolt had been executed by a firing squad. Four anti-Communist civilians condemned by Mahdawi's court were hanged the same day. But the Tabakchali trial had seemingly shaken at last Kassem's faith in Colonel Mahdawi and his court as useful propaganda instruments. The same broadcast that told of Tabakchali's execution announced that Mahdawi had left for a six-week trip to Peking. And after that, reported Baghdad's insiders, he would move...
...lands behind the Iron Curtain, membership in the Communist Party is meant to be a signal honor, a reward for extraordinary services on a tractor, special zeal on a lathe, or talent and diligence at street-corner rallies. But in Warsaw last week, the rulers of Communist Poland were grimly facing up to the fact that to all but a handful of their subjects party membership had come to be nothing but a chore. On a recent journey through the Polish countryside, a Western traveler found that in village after village party headquarters had vanished, closed up for lack...
Fortnight ago, in desperation, Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka introduced a new tactic to beef up the party in rural areas. Since offers of good jobs, high salaries, and softer living had not succeeded in winning new rural members, Gomulka decreed that Communist workers who commute from villages to town factories would have their memberships transferred to the village party list to give a "psychological boost" to scattered country members and make others "less hesitant" to join...
...back France's Communist-led, largely unchurched working classes, the French cardinals in 1943 founded the "Mission to Paris." Specially trained young priests began to take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other pastoral duties during off hours. By 1953, it was obvious that something had gone wrong: of almost 150 worker-priests, some 20 had married and left the church while others had joined Communist unions or Redline causes. Pope Pius XII sternly limited les prêtres-ouvriers to three hours of factory...