Word: socialist
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...intent of the book is clear throughout it charts the submergence of the long cherished communist goal of world revolution into the much of Soviet internal affairs under Stalin According to Carr, the original plan for the defense of a fledgling Spanish socialist government against the rebel Fascists and the advancement of the communist movement there was scrapped in the name of political expediency. As Carr puts it in his conclusion, the "united front," which joined Spanish socialists and communists under Moscow's guidance, gave was to a "popular front," with which the Spanish left was ordered to embrace...
...Spain and Gibraltar's Chief Minister, Sir Joshua Hassan, met in Geneva last week and agreed to hold annual talks that will include the delicate question of sovereignty. But in Gibraltar, union with Spain still seems to be an unpopular idea. Says Joe Bossano, leader of the opposition Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party: "I believe we can follow a path toward self-government...
...sailed aboard the small Soviet passenger liner Baltika from Kaliningrad to New York with Khrushchev and the leaders of several other socialist countries. At age 29, an anonymous foot soldier of Soviet diplomacy, I had the extraordinary opportunity of being assigned to work with the head of our party and the Premier of our country on what was to be a major presentation on decolonization and disarmament to the U.N. General Assembly...
Pietrasinski also made a scathing indictment of Popieluszko and the Roman Catholic Church. Said he: "Father Popieluszko was filled with hatred for socialist Poland. . . . They (the defendants) were extremists just as he (Popieluszko) was an extremist. Thus two extremist attitudes met." Pietrasinski added with subtle cynicism that the aim of the four secret policemen was to discredit Poland's Communist regime. Said he: "They used military uniforms and the financial reserves of the Interior Ministry as if to confirm that terror is being used in Poland. It is known that the kidnaping caused a great resonance. The defendants' act carries...
...apparent to the leadership, canceled a trip to Paris, where he had been expected to attend the 25th congress of the French Communist Party. Two weeks earlier, the Kremlin had announced that a conference of Warsaw Pact leaders, set for mid-January, had been postponed. In Bonn, West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt announced that a visit to the Soviet capital in mid-February had also been postponed at Moscow's request. So great was the climate of uncertainty in Moscow that foreign diplomats and journalists became nervous every time the radio broadcast somber symphonic music, frequently the first indication...