Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulletins from Washington that were front-paged across the nation one day last week held sensational legal and social implications: the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation is unconstitutional even on buses operating within single states, on the basis of the Fourteenth A.mendment...
...thirds of them) on the outside, are better educated and own at least as many homes as their nonveteran counterparts. As for the "wasted years," a survey found that for every veteran who said he had been hurt by his service, four said they had been helped. Moreover, expanded social security now gives to the entire population (including veterans) what service pensions once gave to veterans alone...
...Labor dinner] Khrushchev was beside himself. When he really got the bit between his teeth and came near to identifying social democrats as enemies of the working class, thoughtful people began to realize that, given another situation, social democrats might well be replaced by Jews or albinos or any other convenient bunch of scapegoats...
...this point Khrushchev lost his aplomb, and in revealing flashes of anger exposed the harsh Communist behind the beaming clown. His denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...
Then, though the atmosphere was tense, Gaitskell plunged ahead. He raised the question of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. He asked Khrushchev to consider the release of Social Democrats imprisoned in Eastern Europe, and proffered a list of 150 names furnished by U.S. union leaders...