Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Events in Europe were on the move last week, not in the oscillatory way that made up-and-down crisis headlines, but with a slow-steady movement that left things not as they were. To those who watched only the headlines, Khrushchev lowered his pistol, but did not put it away. To those who kept their eyes only on the official documents that passed back and forth between capitals, there was no change at all in Russia's basic, unacceptable terms; there was only a new hint, reversing Khrushchev's previous stand, at a willingness to hold four...
...slow-steady forward movement of the week was this: in Washington, London, Bonn and Paris, diplomats concerned were now convinced that a Foreign Ministers' conference will be held, probably in Geneva, and that it will begin, if Russia agrees, on May 11. It might last several months, and take up the whole German question ("Agenda isn't important," said one top Briton. "Once people get together, they usually discuss anything they want to"). It would probably fail...
...afoot, "strikes, riots, then real violence culminating in assassination of whites and Africans." In the end, Armitage, who himself expressed no such fears, transmitted them to London, proclaimed an emergency in Nyasaland, began mass arrests, and banned the African National Congress, which he conceded was the most popular political movement in a land where there are 3,000,000 blacks and only 8,000 whites. These fateful steps were taken after a week of jitteriness (TIME, March 9) in which men lost their lives-but not one of them was white...
...African National Congress, he gave a speech to 1,500 blacks. All things considered, it was moderate enough: the British Labor Party, he said,' was absolutely against an independent federation that would be run for and by the whites, but "I am speaking for the whole Labor movement when I tell you to be patient. I ask you particularly not to use violence. I ask you to have pride in your country. Hold your heads high and behave as though this country belonged to you. Do not do anything of which you might be ashamed...
...half a dozen well-infiltrated Indonesian mass organizations that loyally support Communism's interests. They include: the labor confederation SOBSI (2,750,000), the Pemuda Rakjut youth organization (800,000), the Perbepsi veterans group (200,000), the peasant B.T.I. (250,000) and the Gerwani women's movement (75,000). Western intelligence officers also believe that there are 300 secret party members in "sensitive and unsuspected" government positions...