Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were employing commonwealth as a euphemistic name for empire. It has now grown to mean a collection of self-governing communities, united in friendship, but without any central government. Even Khrushchev has put a gingerly foot on the bandwagon by suggesting that his satellite states might grow into a Communist Commonwealth of Nations...
...fact that they had made no substantial concessions to Moscow. This claim, as far as it went, was true: the Western powers had not compromised their legal or physical position in West Berlin, and though they had been shouldered dangerously close to de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, they had clung to their refusal to grant formal diplomatic recognition to the East Germans. But none of this altered the fact that as the weeks went by, the Western performance at Geneva had been one of foot-shuffling irresolution...
Having failed so ignobly to pull off a general strike in May of 1958, Spam's tiny but tightly organized Communist Party was determined that this year would be different. In the biggest flood of anti-Franco propaganda ever, they printed up hundreds of thousands of leaflets to prepare the workers to do their part when Radio Espana Independiente in Communist Prague gave the signal. To some of these leaflets they signed the names of liberal and Roman Catholic organizations that had not even been consulted. "A truly national movement!" cried the Communist radio. But when...
...time when the country's ailing industries were looking for every possible excuse to get rid of workers (it is against Spanish law to lay off workers, as well as to strike), no one wanted to take any chances. But the real reason went deeper. "A purely Communist strike,' complained one Socialist leader. "If they succeed, they'll take all the credit. If they fail, they will blame us." So Spain's moderate opposition, of all varieties, did their most to make the general strike of 1959 a failure...
Franco's police, on special alert to head off the strike, arrested the Reds' mystery man, one "Jimenez Lara," on one of his underground trips into Spain. Most of the other 150 alleged "underground leaders" rounded up before the general strike were, however, non-Communist and Roman Catholic moderates who, though opposed to Franco, seek to disprove Franco's favorite propaganda line-"Either Franco or the Communists...