Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fearful that the Kremlin might take offense if Warsaw crowds treated Nixon too much more warmly than they recently treated Khrushchev (TIME, July 27 et seq.), Poland's Communist government had carefully kept quiet the time and place of the Vice President's arrival, and the Warsaw press said nothing about the route his party would follow into Warsaw. As further insurance, Polish Communists decreed that only 500 people would be allowed onto Babice Airport to meet...
...ever a people voted with their throats, their eyes, their smiling faces, the residents of Communist Poland showed their preference this...
From then on, at stop after stop, Nixon was met with a steady drumfire of hostile questions: Is the U.S. really for peace? Why does the Voice of America "pour filth" on the Soviet Union? Why doesn't the U.S. recognize Red China? Aware of the Communist tactic, but also mindful of an audience whose sympathy he might win, Nixon gave restrained but unyielding answers, pounding away endlessly at Russia's jamming of U.S. broadcasts and its refusal to give the Russian people a chance to choose freely between conflicting "truths." At Uralmash, the Siberian plant that...
...textbook classics in political dialogue-for one thing, constant translations seemed to bring out a simplified pidgin style of discourse. And the cold war has reached a point where the same dialogue works for both sides: Nixon got his biggest cheers and widest smiles by calling out that old Communist slogan, Mir i Druzhba (Peace and Friendship). It was what everybody wanted to hear, wanted to believe...
...when the young non-Communists -a majority of the U.S. delegation-tried to win representation on the festival steering committee, they got a lesson in Communist procedural manipulation. On the transparent pretext that a number of registration cards had been stolen, Festival Chairman (and French Communist) Jean Garcias flatly refused to recognize the majority's officers...