Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work uncovering illegal Communist Party activities just after the liberation of France earned him the enduring enmity of French Reds. But he is also no friend of the U.S.: during his anthropological work he became convinced that south of the Rio Grande the U.S. is a nasty old imperialist. His brilliant, biting speeches against German rearmament helped kill EDC, and he has attacked Mendès' own Paris Accords...
...Soviet scene-to be replaced by that subtler perfume called peaceful coexistence-the Soviet government last week reminded the world that murder is still very much a part of Kremlin politics. The government deliberately chose the anniversary of former Police Boss Lavrenty Beria's execution as "an imperialist agent" to announce the shooting of Viktor Abakumov and three other Beria associates...
...Czechoslovakia, November 1952, Rudolf Slansky, Communist Party secretary-general, and 13 high-placed codefendants confessed to high treason, conspiracy, murder, espionage, Titoism, Zionism, in behalf of "foreign imperialist agents." Who was their spymaster? "The well-known agent Field." Verdict: death on the gallows for Slansky and ten others; imprisonment for three...
...pilgrimages staged by the Russians during the hadj season. Three times since World War II, Moscow had sent Communists from among Russia's large Moslem population to Mecca. Their mission: to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. is really the nearest thing to Mohammedan paradise and that the imperialist U.S. is out to exploit all Moslems...
Prestige & Folly. Revolts are rare events on the Tory side. Next day Sir Winston Churchill walked into a packed Commons committee room to face the objectors. The rebels had always regarded Anthony Eden as their enemy and the old imperialist Prime Minister as their secret friend. Had he not thundered that he would not preside at the liquidation of the Empire? Churchill sat back while his War Secretary, Antony Head, explained on a map why the H-bomb's destructive radius would make the base untenable in a major war. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler then...