Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week L'Unīta, the party journal, published a simple, two-column box announcing that Togliatti had been confirmed as secretary general, and Comrade Luigi Longo as deputy secretary general. At the bottom of the list, after describing all other members of the national politburo, came this line: "Comrade Pietro...
...caliber. But it is also the kind of job in which an out-of-favor Communist can be made to look bad. If the Communists intended to honor Secchia with the appointment, they would hardly have removed him as deputy secretary general or taken him off the politburo. "Secchia will have an office in which to read his papers, but that's about all he'll have," guessed one ex-Communist labor leader...
...that they could also carry hods, puddle steel and unload barges. "The hardest-worked sex in the country and perhaps in the world," cried appalled Feminist Perle Mesta last year after seeing her sisters under the shawl in Russia. In 37 years no woman ever sat in the Soviet Politburo. Ana Pauker, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister, is one of the few to reach top rank in the Communist world, and Pauker is now out of power and out of sight...
...peoples. That is why we must never enhance the prestige of the present rulers of the Kremlin. We must not engage in "high level" conferences which can be played up in the Soviet press as examples of how the Western nations are bowing to the "great rulers" in the Politburo. We must not treat the leaders in the Kremlin as if they were our equals in the world and respectable representatives of a great nation. Only by a severance of diplomatic relations can we give convincing evidence to the people behind the Iron Curtain of the dangerous course which...
...solid political organization. Ho Chi Minh has destroyed the Viet Minh's Nationalist elements, and he is unquestioned master of the Viet Minh Politburo...