Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, old Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, spoke in bellicose tones. "It is known to all," said he, "that through the zealous efforts of aggressive circles in the U.S.A., the cold war continues and is being fanned briskly . . . The imperialist camp ... is conducting a policy of preparing...
...accept a noisy, ticker-tape welcome from downtown Manhattan. To the crowd of half a million who cheered him, he responded with a wry grin and a wave. When the parade passed into Wall Street, he glanced abound ostentatiously. Said he, in memory of ceaseless Communist propaganda about imperialist Wall Street: "I wanted to see what my 'masters' looked like." At City Hall ceremonies, he turned the talk away from himself by extolling other returned prisoners on the platform with...
...ready when a suitable moment arises to act as mediator? It is very much the same sort of attitude as Western European Communists and fellow travelers adopted in 1939, after the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet pact. There was no point, they argued then, in getting involved in an "imperialist" war. Better stand aside, and in due course social revolution would undo Hitler's conquests. Nor, it is worth recalling, was it the inherent fatuity of this position which led them to change their attitude, but only the march of the Wehrmacht into Russia...
Americans sometimes say that Britain recognizes Peking only because of British imperialist and business interests in Hong Kong. In India and Burma the Labor government showed we were abandoning Britain's traditional imperialism. This was morally right and politically sound...
Certainly Britain, and other Commonwealth countries, want to trade with China. Why not? By blocking this trade-and by backing the Japanese invasion of other former British markets in Asia-the Americans are destroying British and Commonwealth prosperity. As a socialist, I am an anti-imperialist: but the new imperialism of the dollar seems to me at least as harmful as the old imperialism; I know that our small, overcrowded, over-industrialized island must trade to live, and we do not want to live mainly on dollar handouts, grateful as we have been for them. If all that Mr. Dulles...