Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the hopeful anti-Soviet stirrings of October 1956, the Polish Defense Ministry announced that it was about to add an important American book to its historical series on World War II. Finally, last week, after unexplained delays, the book was out, and the censor did not alter a word. It was Krucjata w Europie (Crusade in Europe), by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Its price: 90 zlotys ($3.75), or a day and a half's pay for the average Polish worker. Within 48 hours after Krucjata hit the stands, all 10,000 copies were sold...
...requested asylum with a simple, eloquent statement of his circumstances and a fine command of English. Said he: "I desire a life of freedom, which is not possible for a citizen of the U.S.S.R." Talking with Burmese newsmen later, he said that "the main occupation of all the Soviet embassy staff in Rangoon is to spy," that Russia and Red China cooperate closely in espionage activities in Burma, but that "my personal opinion, based on my knowledge, is that the main role is played by Communist China...
Obsession. The Communists have so far not tried to impose Chinese people's communes on North Viet Nam. But less than 20% of the peasants have joined government-sponsored cooperatives, and the party magazine, Nguyen Dam, berates the farmers' "obsession to produce individually." Despite a Soviet loan of 100 million rubles. North Viet Nam's three-year plan (1958-60) is lagging...
Word sifted from the State Department that Career Diplomat Charles E. T. ("Chip") Bohlen, 54, longtime (1950-57) Russian-speaking U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and since then Ambassador to the Philippines, may soon go back to Washington, become top adviser of State's brand-new Soviet-affairs desk...
From the moment W. Averell Harriman, special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, arrived in Moscow last May, the Red carpet went out. His hosts assigned him one of their top interpreters. Vasily Vakhrushev, who last year guided Adlai Stevenson around the Soviet states. Chauffeured official ZIS and Zim sedans were placed at his disposal; interviews with party leaders-including a 90-minute tete-a-tete with Khrushchev-were easy. Barriers melted away, and the safari toured industrial areas in Siberia and the Urals hitherto closed to capitalist rubbernecks...