Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SEPTEMBER. New Ivy League fashion craze, begun in Eliot House, sweeps the nation--black shirts. Cecil B. DeMille arrested by Moscow Secret Police for conspiring to overthrow the government. Says De Mille, "It was Stanislavski technique." Arthur Darby Nock denies that he is a living reincarnation. States he, "I am Arthur Darby Nock." Is given a Ford Grant to prove...
They continue to resist not only because they are brave, but because they have to. The workers' councils, the citizens' groups, the army units dare not let the Kadar regime regain full control of the country. They cannot overthrow the Red Army, but their strength lies in the fact that neither can the Russians mine coal in army tanks. Some kind of agreed or understood armistice between workers' council and regime, protecting the Hungarians against reprisals in return for a resumption of stability, is what the rebels must continue to fight for. One thing...
...sits in a desperate middle: if Poles are content for now to seek to alleviate rather than to overthrow Communism, it is because, watching Hungary's revolt with anguished sympathy, they see that other nations will not come to their aid, and they know that Russia is far more determined to hold a neighboring Poland than a distant Hungary...
...distressed about his endorsement of the newly founded November Front, with its obscure aims and oddly mixed membership, including career army officers, opportunistic politicos, labor leaders, left-leaners and outright Communists. The front's avowed purpose is to block any attempt by opponents of the Kubitschek administration to overthrow the government. But Kubitschek & Co., far from rejoicing in the front's support, regard it with a wary...
...invasion of Eastern Europe could not even accomplish the liberation of Hungary. We have little reason to believe that the peoples of Eastern Europe want to be liberated by foreign invaders. Their grievences are severe, but even Poland and Yugoslavia show no inclination to overthrow communism or break with Russia. We must not let the tragic course of events in Hungary deceive us. Bloodshed has its own momentum, and forces the participants to extreme positions. The Hungarian rebellion did not begin as an effort to overthrow Communist and Soviet domination, and we cannot suppose that such intensity of feeling exists...