Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Selwyn Lloyd - I have studied this [Soviet] draft peace treaty carefully. It has one merit. It is in itself a refutation of Mr. Gromyko's principal criticism of the Western peace plan: that it is a package. The Soviet draft shows clearly how interrelated are these various problems-reunification of Germany, security provisions, an interim status for Berlin . . . The Soviet treaty would be a Diktat . . . What the Soviet government is doing in effect is to show that they wish to impose terms on Germany as was done at Versailles...
Having put literature in its secondary place, Khrushchev was inclined to appear forgiving to erring authors who were willing to be tamed. At the Third Soviet Writers Congress in Moscow, which he addressed last week, three authors who had been chided in the past (including Ilya Ehrenburg) were "rehabilitated" by the writers' union. The "bearers of revisionist opinions," proclaimed Khrushchev, "have suffered a complete fiasco," and it is now time for "other Soviet writers to help those who have committed errors and recognized them to rejoin the big family of authors. The angels of reconciliation are already flying...
...expansively, "I must say there are certain passages which deserve attention." Deputy Premier Mikoyan, he said, had first put him on to the book, pointing out that there were passages in it that the author literally took from Khrushchev. "Yes," said Khrushchev, Dudintsev had borrowed his own criticisms of Soviet bureaucracy in telling of the frustrations of an inventor trying to get his invention accepted, "but he exaggerated them too much." He said that he would like to meet Dudintsev, who once protested, "I feel a leading string on myself all the time.'' But, Khrushchev complained, whenever...
...University of Wisconsin-trained Soviet apologist, Gunawardena used his powerful position to force nationalization of Colombo's port and bus systems and collectivization of many of the island's fertile paddy fields. Now he was setting up an island-wide system of cooperatives frankly dedicated to his declared objective: "All private enterprise must totally disappear...
...burst their seams with envy at the news that the Paris fashion house founded by the late Christian Dior will haul its entire summer collection to Moscow early in June. The House of Dior, in a cultural exposition unparalleled since the days of the czars, will be presented to Soviet bigwigs and Moscow's diplomatic corps, then move into a big public hall, play to proletarians (admission: $3 top) for six days. Asked by a Dior representative if the group could bring along the normal retinue of aides, hairdressers and some 120 models, a Soviet spokesman responded with...