Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Red China law strictly forbids the export of antiques, the Communist government itself conducts a thriving, surreptitious trade in ancient objets d'art. It does so through an organization called the Peking Arts and Crafts Co., which commands high prices for bronzes and porcelain slipped out to selected dealers in Hong Kong and Europe. Included last week in the latest selection of mainland art wares showing up in Hong Kong shops was a sizable portion of loot from Tibet. For $50 and up, customers could choose from dozens of gilded bronze temple statues of Buddha, silver Tibetan chalices...
German Evangelical Church Day, known as Kirchentag, and the split that showed was the growing division between West Germany and the Communist East Zone...
Germany's Lutherans are strong for reunification of Germany, and in order not to rile the Communists against their Eastern brethren, they refrained from anti-Communist talk in speeches. Instead of bitterness at the Red regime, Lutherans displayed a tendency to look upon its repressions as divine punishment. Said Director Johann Schonherr of the Pastoral Seminary in East Germany's Brandenburg: "If today, in one part of Germany, the church loses many of its old privileges, the church must see this as God's way of regenerating it ... The church must suffer with its people, must share...
...Secretary of State. Bob is in trouble-a controversial liberal and accomplished public servant, he is a hero to the eggheads but unacceptable to conservatives. Old Senator Scab Cooley of South Carolina is frankly out to get him, and he finds his weapon when evidence links Leffingwell to a Communist cell in his past...
...brusque honesty, owes a great deal of his fictional likeness to that of Bob Taft, while the Vice President who wakes up in the middle of the night worrying that the President might die recalls the early Harry Truman. In an ironic reversal, the book's leading Communist appeaser, Senator Van Ackerman, has all the demagogic characteristics of Joe McCarthy...