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...This tragic fight at Dienbienphu, instead of splitting French opinion, brings unanimity and greater courage for the ever-increasing majority of French non-Communists . . . Americans should not perpetually sneer at our French government for being lousy; they should try to improve their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...Finley jibe and sneer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Follow the Fold | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

...great applause, the Marshal announced that he was speaking for the good of France, to force the Cabinet to put EDC to a decision. Standing at ease at the banquet table, his epaulettes glittering, his voice tinged with a sneer, he slapped at the government. "What we really need is to have a government." Cabinets "without continuity" can do nothing, he complained, and appeals for, action are lost on "administrations without ears and without guts." His voice rose. "We are a great country which still has some good cards to play, but must know how to play them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Juin Affair | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...millions of Americans who deplore and despise Senator McCarthy want to understand the millions who admire McCarthy, "despite his methods," they could ponder McCarthy's record of the week. The bully-boy manners, the sneer and the smear are conspicuous in the record. But alongside such trademarks of the McCarthy operation there was also the record of a week packed with investigative achievement. McCarthy scored heavily, and some of his points were of real and current importance. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: One Man's Army | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Peasants. Khrushchev's work had brought him face to face with one immutable fact that plagues Communism the world over: that Marxism is and was the creed of a city dweller, with little place in it for the land-loving peasantry. In their writings, Communist thinkers (e.g., Engels) sneer at the muzhiks as "a class of barbarians" with an "anti-collective skull," condemned by history to inexorable extinction. Communist bosses (e.g., Stalin) have consistently endeavored to make the prophecy come true, and the result is a never-ending war between the muzhik and the commissar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Muzhik & the Commissar | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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