Word: sino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebration in historic Wenceslaus Square, where citizens had wept when the Nazis swept in. Paris had a divided holiday-a traditional left-wing parade and a rival Gaullist music festival. Rome listened to speeches in the jampacked Piazza del Popolo. Peking's 200,000 celebrants chanted "Long live Sino-Soviet alliance...
...party may move to one of Bangkok's many Chinese restaurants', every one of which has exactly 384 dishes listed on the menu. This 384 is not a mystic Sino-Siamese number-it derives simply from the fact that all the restaurants patronize the same printer. Most of them have 20-odd dishes on hand, and if the customer can't have what he orders, mai ben rai. And there is beer from all over the world: Mexico's Tecate, America's Pabst, Germany's Klosterbrau, Denmark's Carlsberg...
Pravda hinted that "international relations were entering a new stage," attributed this to the strong impact of the new Sino-Soviet alliance (see below). Red Fleet accused the U.S. of rejecting "all proposals toward lessening the international strain," then sniffed a "modification" in the wind, because U.S. public opinion was more & more ranging up against U.S. policy...
...best these were guesses. It was no guess that, on the face of the Sino-Soviet pact, world Communism could cheer another notable diplomatic and propaganda triumph in Asia. On the platform of Moscow's Yaroslav station just before he took the train back to Peking, China's Mao made a not unreasonable prediction: "This [treaty] will inevitably influence not only the flourishing of the great powers, China and the Soviet Union, but also the future of all mankind...
...Bangkok's streets the Americans could hear the pop and splutter of firecrackers. Thousands of Siam's Chinese (a vigorous, influential one-sixth of the country's 18 million inhabitants) were celebrating the Chinese New Year-and the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty...