Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, top Communist Palmiro Togliatti gave Communist Terracini a public dressing-down. The Italian Communist Party announced officially that Terracini's interview "expresses the false and dangerous tendency of putting on the same plane imperialist aggressors, who are fomenting war and intervening in the internal life of peoples . . . and states which, like the Soviet Union, necessarily follow a policy of defense of peace and never dream of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. . . . Opinions of the kind expressed by Comrade Terracini can only serve to disorient the working masses in a battle which they must wage...
...full by Moscow's Pravda: to coordinate Communist forces against U.S. imperialism and wreck the Marshall Plan, which the congress called a U.S. device for the economic and political control of the world. They charged that the U.S. and Britain had fought World War II purely for imperialist reasons. Specifically named as "imperialist toadies" and traitors to the working class were Britain's Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; France's Premier Ramadier and Socialist Leader Leon Blum, Italy's Giuseppe Saragat, and Dr. Kurt Schumacher, German Social Democratic leader...
...Kremlin's ambitions could be well defined, said Lippmann, because they were historically imperialist Russian ambitions: a pan-Slav affiliation extending to the Oder River, the Alps, the Adriatic and the Aegean. It was the Red Army, not Marxist ideology, Lippmann argued, which had placed Russia in control of virtually all the territory she coveted...
Laborite Bevin, like any Tory imperialist, plumped for an imperial economic union. Rumbled big Ernie: "I hope our Commonwealth and certainly the [colonial] Empire will agree as to the possibility of a customs union. . . . There are tremendous resources-diamonds for industrial purposes, lead, mica, asbestos, copper and all kinds of things...
Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...