Word: joliot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their battle with Communism. This situation was illustrated by the story of three men in the news last week. The men were the U.S.'s Professor Owen Lattimore, Britain's Secretary for War John Strachey and France's Atomic Energy Boss Frédéric Joliot-Curie...
...Physicist & His Girl Friend. In a sense, the case of Frédéric Joliot-Curie was the weirdest of the three. France, the democratic nations' chief ally on the Continent, receiver of nearly four and a half billion U.S. dollars since the war's end, which had solemnly signed the Atlantic pact and was last week receiving its first shipment of U.S. arms, maintained an avowed Communist Party member as the chief of its atomic-energy program...
...Dautry, then French armaments minister, had tried to justify this situation with Gallic sophistication: "Our atomic scientists are men of all political views. You cannot control what goes on in their minds. Who knows what a man really means when he tells a girl he loves her?" Last week, Joliot-Curie left no doubt in anybody's mind about what he meant. At a Communist Party meeting he declared that he would not collaborate with the U.S. on atomic-energy matters. Said he -"We Communists know that the Soviet Union will not be the first to use the atomic...
...determined, organized campaign to win firm political friends everywhere; e.g., the Gaullists, the Vatican, Islam, and the Chinese Nationalists. The U.S. must not rely exclusively on formal pacts of friendship and alliance with governments: "To strengthen France's Atomic Energy Commission under the Communist, Joliot-Curie, is a defeat, not a victory; to keep even precariously alive a small detachment of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army is an unalloyed victory...
Emmanuel appears to have drifted gradually from his wartime alliance with the Communists, rather than to have made a sudden break. He did not sign, for instance, petitions defending Joliot-Curie, attacking France's Indo China policies, or protesting the Atlantic Pact-petitions considered in France to be Communist inspired...