Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mossadeq, an honest man at the head of a largely incompetent and corrupt government, obviously could not run the oilfields, wanted British technicians to stay on and do the job for him. Having expropriated the British, the Iranians now childishly blamed the British for not assisting at their own expropriation. Said professorial little Allahyar Saleh, chairman of the parliamentary Nationalization Board: "We hope the foreign employees will not leave their jobs. If they do so, Iran will disclaim responsibility for the disruption of the flow of oil to the West...
Kripalani denounced the Congress Party for being corrupt, and Nehru's government for using police state measures ("Can there be greater shame than that my telephone is tapped?"). Kripalani professed his loyalty to Nehru personally. Cried he: "I have no greater friend than Jawaharlal Nehru. What is Congress today except the name of one man-Nehru? That name has been prostituted . . . His ministers are betraying...
...show of optimism-which comes naturally to the tribe-had returned to the Democrats, after the weeks of headlines about corrupt party machines, influence-peddling and the firing of Douglas MacArthur...
...Republican leaders agreed that their machine badly needed a new look. They were nervous about the vote-getting names the Democrats were assembling for this fall's mayoralty elections. And they knew that a change was long overdue in the city that Lincoln Steffens once (1903) described as "corrupt and contented...
Whether or not Rhee is corrupt and reactionary is not the main issue with the Korean voters. The major difficulty is that his government is impotent. Its naive, clumsy attempts to feed, clothe, and house the Korean people have failed. Such a leadership vacuum cannot last much longer. If Rhee and his faction bide their time until pro-Communist reformers are voted into office, then the objectives of the UN forces in Korea will have been lost...