Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acceptance of peaceful change, moreover, Khrushchev & Co. hope to make time with Socialists in France and Italy. They may succeed with a new generation, but older Socialists are likely to ask why not a Popular Front on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and where are the Russian, Polish, Czech and Rumanian Socialist leaders of yesteryear...
Possibly the State Department feels that this active acquiescence in the arming of Israel will fool the Arabs, while calming Israeli fears. It is unlikely, however, that the guise will be any more effective than Russia's use of Czech arms. Worse, this attempt to use the French as a decoy represents not only diplomatic ineptitude, but moral cowardice. If we are unwilling to commit ourselves fully to Israeli interests, it is indeed base to attempt to force the French into it. France with her Algerian problem, is as interested in maintaining Moslem goodwill as the United States, and hence...
...military junta and the unstable condition of Egypt gave shareholders no guarantee that their investment would be protected. Said Black: "The Bank is a bank, not a handout business." While the World Bank hesitated, Nasser talked to the Russians, who are supplying him with arms from the Czech armament factories. The Russians offered to lend Egypt $300 million for 30 years at 2% interest, promised to complete the dam in six years instead of the 15 estimated by Western engineers. Nasser confided to U.S. officials that the prospect of having an army of Communist engineers in Egypt pleased...
...squad, in amassing their largest score in one game, gained revenge for its earlier 4-3 defeat at the hands of the same Czech team. Bill Cleary, ex-Harvard star, scored his third goal of the tournament during the contest...
...dealing with central Europe. His biggest coup took place in 1948, when he masterminded the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. While maintaining a smiling relationship with President Benes, Zorin gathered together a team of Moscow-trained Communists and helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section of Czech life. After the coup he returned to Moscow, but was back in Prague three years later to supervise the liquidation of Rudolf Slansky and a score of other top Czech Communists on Stalin's suspect list...