Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certain comrades." said Tito, had cast suspicion on the Socialist character of Yugoslavia. "There is talk that a tactical attitude should be taken toward Yugoslavia, that she should be re-educated and again brought into camp ... It would be very useful if these comrades would finally abandon such absurd tendencies...
...considerable cost to their own self-respect, the Yugoslavs-whose Party Congress is already being cold-shouldered by Western Socialist Parties because Tito has two prewar Socialist leaders behind bars-humbly worded their program in a more pro-Soviet manner. Khrushchev decided that the change was not enough, and Red China and all the Communist satellites followed suit in boycotting the Ljubljana meeting. In isolation but still firmly in control of his own show, Tito last week allowed himself to be unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament...
...rivalry with the U.S.: "What country has the largest number of people getting a higher education? Answer: the Soviet Union. What country sent the first Sputniks into the cosmos? Answer: those were Socialist Sputniks. Who wants to overtake whom in science? Answer: the U.S. would like to overtake the Soviet Union." Then, looking down at LIFE photographer Lisa Larsen, he added: "But don't misunderstand me. There is an American girl standing in front. There may be other Americans, too. I don't want to hurt anyone's national feelings. Americans, British-all are good people...
...Budapest, scene of his most dubious triumph. He bounced out of his TU-104 jetliner, kissed Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar and Premier Ferenc Munnich on both cheeks, and with a wave of a black Homburg. told 4,000 stone-faced Hungarians: "The Soviet Union and the other Socialist countries are your most loyal friends." Replied the sallow, thin-haired Kadar. without a blink at the sepulchral irony of his own words: ''The Hungarian people will never forget that Soviet troops liberated our country...
...election night the issue was never in doubt. Two hours after the polls closed in Ontario and Quebec, Liberal Pearson conceded the Tory victory, then sadly watched it roll westward across the time zones. It left the once-dominant Liberals with 49 seats, reduced the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to a splinter of 8 seats, totally wiped out of Parliament Western Canada's funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered...