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...private ownership in 1953. But the policy that Gaitskell says must "supersede" the old way is a vague threat to authorize the state "to extend public ownership in any industry or part of industry which . . . is found to be seriously failing the nation." Presumably even this was a sop to the Bevanites on the study group that prepared party doctrine. For instead of nationalization Gaitskell now favors a weird plan for the government to get part way into private business. He would have the government acquire shares in some or all of the 512 firms with assets...
...entrust their future to. Though he lasted 23 months as Premier of the Soviet Union. Malenkov lasted only 16 days as First Secretary of the party, the crucial job Stalin willed him. Next in line after Malenkov in the hierarchy was Beria (who was quickly liquidated, a sop to popular anti-Stalin feeling, as much as for the crimes he had committed). Then came Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan...
...tung's "secret" speeches (TIME, May 27, June 24), Red China decided to publish one of them to get the European comrades off the hook. "The author," noted the New China News Agency gravely, "has gone over the text and made certain additions." Among the additions, as a sop to Moscow, was the phrase, "We do not think other countries must follow the Chinese way." And among the tactful deletions was Mao's admission that the Reds had liquidated 800,000 Chinese...
...Permitting free movement of labor, so that labor-hungry areas such as Germany's Ruhr can sop up some of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed...
...speech flashed on the screen before the picture opens, the producer-director declares that his moral is the birth of freedom; "Moses freed mankind for the first time to live under law, not by submission to some individual." The statement is not only inaccurate; in effect, it throws a sop to everybody-atheists and agnostics, as well as Protestants, Catholics and Jews. They can all pay their $2.75 and watch his monstrosity with a clear conscience...