Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stop the Nonsense." Having elbowed its own way in, West Germany now finds a newcomer using the same tactics as it did. Soviet-bloc nations are muscling in on the Middle East, particularly in the field of heavy construction, where the West Germans previously had a clear lead. Last December, despite the fact that West German experts were the first to make technical studies of the proposed Aswan High Dam, Nasser's United Arab Republic, in accepting Russian financial help, pledged itself to give Russia exclusively the first five years' construction work. This month Russia grabbed...
...Soviet success in Iraq demonstrates, the Communists often benefit even more than the Germans from Mideastern hatred for the "imperialist powers." Communist states are also prepared to underwrite prestigious but unprofitable deals. In Cairo last summer, when a West German firm desperately sought to win an electrical construction contract away from the East Germans, the East German representative impatiently burst out: "Gentlemen, let's stop this nonsense. I have orders from my home office to undercut any Western price-even if I have to go to practically zero...
...prices to Western textile manufacturers (including West Germans), the Communists have driven Egyptian cotton exporters out of much of the European market, have thus deprived Egypt of a major source of foreign exchange and reduced her ability to import Western goods. In the first half of 1958, Soviet-bloc exports to Egypt were more than 2½ times West Germany...
...Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial influence and intelligence services in a single network of "contact offices." Aware that such devices make West Germany best able of all Western nations to match the techniques of Soviet state capitalism in the Middle East, West Germany's canny traders expect to go on giving the Soviet-bloc nations a hard run for their money -and Western competitors an even harder run for theirs...
Last week, clearly acting as De Gaulle's spokesman, Ely gave French officers a pep talk in the official National Defense Review, outlining their new mission. The Soviet bloc, wrote Ely, is not necessarily as monolithic as it looks. Already, he declared, "Russia, in its endeavors to catch up with American industrial and scientific developments, is moving toward a similar structure." If Red China persists in driving toward "true-blue Communism," the day might come when, between the Chinese threat and "a shift toward the old mystic spiritualism of the Slavs," a Christianized and "Americanized Russia . . . might return...