Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutionary wars' or 'wars of liberation.' War is war, no matter where or why it may be fought. Peace also is indivisible. Peace is not the prerogative of the Communists alone, nor can it be applied only to areas outside the immediate concern of the Sino-Soviet bloc...
Beyond that, Khrushchev said often and emphatically that he wanted to reduce the percentage of the Soviet gross national product now devoted to military projects (about 25%, as compared to about 10% in the U.S.) and convert it to consumer production. The U.S. officials pictured Khrushchev's frequent public claims about soon catching up with the U.S. in industrial and agricultural production as mere window dressing. In his more private moments, Khrushchev was portrayed as realizing that any such parity will be a long time in coming, can only be achieved by cutting down on military projects in favor...
...than more Communist talk. To test Khrushchev's good faith, they urged that the U.S. quickly make proposals for East-West agreements in a dozen different areas, e.g., a controlled nuclear ban, renewed negotiations on the U.S.S.R.'s lend-lease account with the U.S., an end to Soviet jamming of U.S. broadcasts beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...years, Soviet economists have inveighed against installment buying as simply another hobnail in the capitalist heel grinding the faces of the poor. When a Western worker lost his job, they declared, he lost his car, his furniture, even the home on which he could no longer keep up payments. Last week, in an unabashed about-face, workers all over Russia were invited to sign up for the installment plan as a wide range of Soviet consumer goods were made available on credit...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--Although diplomats are reluctant to talk about it, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower are falling out of step again on their march to a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...