Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publicly avowed in his press conference that the U.S. was not playing solo. The disarmament discussions, he said, are not "just between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. And we are not going to throw into the discard the views of our allies merely in the interest of making progress on a bilateral basis with the Soviet Union...
Last week, in an emotional speech in Rangoon's City Hall, ascetic, chubbily handsome U Nu, just turned 50, publicly surveyed Burma's progress under socialism and found it bad. The government, with himself as "principal offender," declared U Nu, had made "terrible mistakes ... a series of blunders that resulted from putting the cart before the ox." The new solutions: 1) concentrate on the basic governmental task of establishing peace and order, 2) open up industrial enterprises to people with "profit motives," and 3) suspend all nonessential economic projects, including government projects that had encouraged "thievery and pilfering...
...unyielding opposition from 72-year-old ex-President Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's successor and now leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. He invoked a strong feeling: though Turkey remains a Moslem country, a whole generation of Turks has been brought up to believe that progress and democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished the fez, separated church and state. Pointedly Inonu recalled that during their fight to overthrow the Sultan and forge the Turkish Republic, Ataturk and his followers were formerly proclaimed infidels by the Constantinople Caliphate. "The main point," said Inonu, "is not the pardon...
Among the progress reports heard at the A.M.A. convention...
...controversy raged on, oilmen rushed around soothing fears of drilling fuss and muss, tried to round up more homeowners' leases to meet the 51% required for dezoning. They made small progress in Beverly Hills, which refuses to allow the specter of industry in its well-manicured oasis of luxury and wealth. There oilmen found only 220 citizens willing to lease. The remaining 31,000 have enough money already, or belong to the right oil-golf clubs near...