Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Step by step, Kozlov climbed, until February 1957, when he became a candidate member of the Communist Central Committee's powerful Presidium. It was in this capacity that Kozlov, skilled in the ways of Kremlinfighting, is reputed to have saved Khrushchev's neck by rallying the 130-man committee and, in so doing, helping Khrushchev to defeat the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich wing of the party. That was in June 1957; that same month Kozlov was awarded full membership in the Presidium. Less than a year later, Khrushchev made him First Deputy Premier, ranking him with the crafty Armenian...
...conference, Maine Newshen May Craig asked Ike's opinion of the art section of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, which is, somewhat belatedly, being scrutinized by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (34 of the 67 artists represented, the committee charged, "have records of affiliations with Communist fronts and causes"). Ike's answer was rough going...
Before the court was the case of William L. Greene, who lost his $18,000-a-year job as an aeronautical engineer and was reduced to working as a $4,700-a-year draftsman when the Navy revoked his security clearance in 1953. The Navy charged association with Communists and Communist-fronters in 1943-47. Greene denied the charges and contended that Security Board procedures violated his constitutional rights. In keeping with its longtime practice of sidestepping constitutional questions whenever possible, the court decided the case on the narrower ground of authorization. But in an opinion shared by Associate Justices...
...went on outside the hall. Moscow, objecting to holding the West German election in Berlin, had made noisy threats before hand. Allied officials nervously watched the Autobahnen, expecting some kind of traffic obstruction by the Russians, and scores of police with walkie-talkies moved into position to guard against Communist demonstrations at the voting hall...
...much-prized German nationality may cost them as much as 20% of their pay after taxes. Such complaints led some West German newspapers, in commenting on the "Little Reunification" with the Saar, to ask soberly whether 17 million East Germans might one day be similarly reluctant to give up Communist welfare privileges for a free economy with higher living standards but lacking some state social security benefits. The difference is that the Saar is merely exchanging French rule for German rule, whereas East Germans would be switching from totalitarianism to something of great price: freedom...