Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tireless talent for saying the same thing in the same way, offered some apparent concessions of his own. The West, he conceded, does have the victor's right to maintain occupation forces in Berlin, and the Soviet price for a Berlin settlement no longer requires Western recognition of Communist East Germany. Then came the old stall: Russia would not discuss the question of access until the Western powers agreed that Berlin become a "free city," i.e., until they renounced their occupation rights. And there matters stopped-approximately where they had been when Nikita Khrushchev first conjured up the Berlin...
Having told the Constituent Assembly what to do, Sukarno last April took off on a two-month round-the-world tour. He got an honorary degree in Communist Warsaw, saw a bullfight in Mexico City, by last week was happily roaming Los Angeles in a sky-blue uniform, kissing Joan Crawford, lecturing college professors at U.C.L.A. ("We have split the atom. We are going into space. We can control agriculture. We can control weather. We can control all save the evil hearts...
...believe that the clergy should speak out from the pulpit on controversial political issues? (e.g.disarmament, foreign aid, economic structure, recognition of Communist China...
Despite the tempest Doctor Zhivago created, Billington emphasized that the book itself is not a predominantly political tract, "for Pasternak is not a tractical, didactic writer." But the passages which do give rise to anti-Communist sentiments, Billington continued, are the ones most quoted in Russia and in the West for political purposes...
...believe a member of the Communist Party should be permitted to hold any teaching position in any American college or university: 79 agree with the above statement; 228 disagreed with the above statement...