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Word: sovietizers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most dramatic symbol of the cold war's progress last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was Tibet's Dalai Lama, who, at the cost of physical defeat, won a psychological victory. Red China's rape of Tibet stirred the neutralist powers of Asia as the Soviet rape of Hungary never had. With shock, Asians suddenly realized that there could be "yellow colonialism" as well as "white colonialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The Awakening | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

None of this warranted unalloyed Western rejoicing. Soviet control of strategic Iraq would be a disastrously high price to pay for the education of Nasser-even if his new understanding should prove genuine and lasting. And the education of the Asian neutrals was being paid for in Tibetan blood. But if the moment of truth had, in fact, come for the "uncommitted" Afro-Asian nations, Communist imperialism might be in for tougher times in the years ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The Awakening | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Undermined by the twin Communist weapons of chaos and subversion, Iraq, until recently the West's strongest ally in the Middle East, is in real danger of becoming a Soviet satellite. Already the new Iraqi government has withdrawn from the Baghdad Pact, driven Britain's R.A.F. from its Habbaniyah base near Baghdad. Unless the slide toward Communism is halted, the Soviet Union will penetrate the very heart of the Middle East, outflank staunchly pro-Western Turkey and increasingly shaky Iran. Encamped at the head of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.S.R. could then render the rest of the Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Dissembler | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...with tear gas and clubs, arrested union members on sight, including Vallejo and all his top lieutenants. The government charged that Vallejo is a Communist (he claims to have quit the party in 1946) and had plotted the strike with the second secretary and military attaché of the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. The government booted the two Russians out of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Third Strike | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Died. Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky, 87, oldest Bolshevist revolutionary, who shared with Lenin a 17-month prison term that began in 1895, later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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