Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party's official peace offensive. But he made it plain that short of war, the Soviet Union will assist "struggles of liberation," as in Korea, struggles for the "retirement" of "warlike governments" and the overthrow of capitalism, as in Czechoslovakia and China, and the promotion of war between "imperialist" states...
...Business, through its control of both major parties, is expanding this country's "imperialist empire" at an "express train rate," said Vincent Hallinan, Progressive Party candidate for President in his speech to the Young Progressives in New Lecture Hall yesterday...
What spread the mood was Stalin's new party line, his present attitude of unconcern over "capitalistic encirclement," and his prophecy that the "imperialist" nations will war on each other (TIME, Oct. 13). Apparently the world was in for another Communist attempt to divide the anti-Communist coalition by creating popular fronts. The intent was to relax tension in Europe; the spread of cold peace was a measure of how much a credulous Europe wanted tension relaxed...
...years. Molotov cried that U.S. "ruling circles" are "conducting preparations for unleashing a new world war"; Malenkov accused the U.S. of saddling "their junior partners, enslaving them, flogging them mercilessly," also "inspiring plots against their English and French allies" in their colonies. "The conflicts at present dividing the imperialist camp can lead...
...stands in fierce, often prejudiced judgment on his age. At times, as when he declares Americans "the windiest people extant" and deplores the inclination of democracies to undervalue great men, he resembles Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America). And when he lambastes his native land for coarse materialism and imperialist forays ("Texas is annexed. I think I'll expatriate myself"), he anticipates Henry Adams. But what makes his diary good reading for Americans is its reflection of an individual mind which, for all its excesses and limitations, is unslackingly honest...