Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help, economic aid has been one of the most effective instruments of U.S. foreign policy. But at Cairo's Afro-Asian Conference last week (see below), Soviet representatives were gleefully hammering away at a new theme: "The capitalists no longer have a monopoly of credit and machinery. The Socialist countries are really giving...
...that the Soviets make loans rather than gifts is not resented as tightfisted, instead flatters the touchy pride of newly independent nations as businesslike dealing between equals. When they insist that the factories they build must be state property, Russian negotiators are often more in tune with the vaguely socialist ideology of most Afro-Asians than are U.S. aid administrators in their attempts to promote free enterprise. Needing raw materials and food that the underdeveloped countries produce, the Russians can profitably make barter deals that the U.S. has no use for. Their apparent aim is to achieve a reputation...
...party members in Hopei he was not the same old Liu. The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary." Instead of seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into...
...Barbados, sugargrowing "little England" of the West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...
...finally found her stimulus in Theosophy. In the cult's early exciting days its devotees expected that a great spirit was about to be reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...