Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Humphrey's wild imagination ran riot when he began to make up his inventions about the relations between the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. In this he even surpassed the well-known compiler of lies, Baron Munchausen." Without explicitly denying Humphrey's report that Khrushchev had described China's communes as "reactionary," Khrushchev said: "The idea that I could have been in any way confidential with a man who himself boasts of his 20-year struggle against Communism can only serve to raise a laugh...
...Replying that he had accurately quoted the Soviet Premier, Humphrey said: "Mr. Khrushchev appears particularly sensitive, and understandably so, to having some of his remarks about Red China's communes publicized...
...moderates but willing to work with the Communists. Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba and Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid stayed on in their posts. They were the very same officials who last week negotiated important trade agreements with Communist Rumania and Bulgaria, and reached a preliminary agreement for a "vast" Soviet program to supply technical aid and erect 20 industrial projects over the years, not with Soviet funds but with Iraq's sizable profits from its British-run oil wells...
...Communist China is Britain's best customer in the Communist bloc. Britain sold $75 million in goods to Red China last year-$8,400,000 more than to the Soviet Union...
Sounding occasionally like an announcer watching a three-legged horse win the Belmont Stakes, U.S. educators back from Russian tours report with awe and alarm that the Soviet schools are in some ways very good indeed. More strident cries rise from home-based critics, who demand that the U.S. get into the education race without delay. A more thoughtful reporting job is offered in The Big Red Schoolhouse (Doubleday; $3.95), a new book by Fred M. Hechinger, who helped write the Rockefeller report on U.S. education, The Pursuit of Excellence (TIME, July...