Word: diehardism
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...state security police. All the Kremlin talk of coexistence, and Russia's downgrading of Stalinist police methods, had made the AVH feel that they might be sold out at any time by their Moscow bosses. Now a new Hungarian security-police force, composed of old AVH stalwarts, diehard Communists and trade-union toughies, to the number of 10,000, has been formed, and every effort is being made to make them feel that not only do they have the backing of Moscow, but of the whole Communist world. This was the main reason last week for the visit...
...When the Middle East debate ends, and the Senate turns to other legislation, there should be enough sympathetic votes to force the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, lorded over by Chairman James 0. Eastland of Mississippi. And when some 20 diehard Southern Senators attempt to talk the bill to death on the floor, there should be enough votes even under present cloture rules (64) to cut off the filibuster and bring the measure to a vote. In the House, which passed a civil-rights bill last year, the measure should have far less trouble...
...matter of practical politics, harried Socialist Guy Mollet could scarcely afford to offer the Algerians anything new. Trapped between Algerian terrorists and diehard French imperialists, Mollet had little room for maneuver. Last week the news leaked out that the French government had arrested dashing Brigadier General Jacques Faure, assistant commander of the Algiers area, aboard a French train and sentenced him to 30 days' close confinement in the fortress of La Courneuve outside Paris because of his unconcealed conviction that "in moments of great national crisis [soldiers] must not hesitate to seize power...
...farmers actually voted for his plan, Ezra Benson feels that equity is on his side. He hopes that Congress will feel the same, but before he finds out for sure, Washington can look forward to another blazing Capitol Hill go-around between the Bensonites and the diehard defenders of the oldtime system of high-price supports...
...news incensed Hungary. On this day even the diehard Communists producing the party newspaper Nep Szabadsag went on strike. Even though the Russians had brought railroad workers from Russia to run the trains, the trains were stopped...