Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of the Siberian nowhere, a shawled, frail woman herds passengers aboard a plane with the shout: 'Let's go, comrades, we are Russians! Let's hurry. We must be first, first in everything...
...When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that no one could be considered faultless, he was forced to admit that "Chairman Mao and Comrade Liu Shao-chi and a few other leaders have achieved the stage of perfection." Liu even opposed Mao Tse-tung on the "let a hundred flowers bloom" theory and-in Communist terms-was proved right. He annoys Soviet officials by telling them that Russians are not capable of understanding China, and displays the contempt of an old street agitator for the commanding generals of the Red Chinese army. A man unlovely and unloved...
...tense days a year ago, after the May 13 Algerian riots that started Charles de Gaulle on his way to power, one French Deputy pleaded: "Let us vote for him lest we lose the right to vote altogether." Last week, as the new Assembly of the Fifth Republic opened its first regular session, flabbergasted Deputies got a demonstration of just how much they had lost after...
Though dictator-ruled Portugal is a member of NATO, dictator-ruled Spain is not. One reason is the long-standing hostility between France and Franco's Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, France took in 500,000 Republican refugees and even let them set up a government in exile. French Socialists in particular, recalling with distaste Franco's wartime friendship with Hitler and Mussolini, have always resisted friendly relations with Franco...
Aegean provinces. The Menderes government's attitude became clear at the start: on his departure from Ankara, police refused to let any of Inonu's supporters into the railway station. When he tried to speak from the train to a crowd of Republicans at Eskisehir, a city of 125,000, engine whistles blasted throughout his speech, and a freight train was backed onto the main line between Inonu and the crowd...