Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe girls, however, tended more toward pacifism. The contrast emerged on the question: "IF the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union OR surrender to the Soviet Union, would you favor war or surrender?" While the substantial majority of both men and girls selected "war," Radcliffe girls were more prone to consider "surrender" as an acceptable alternative. Whereas 75 per cent of the Harvard men chose "war," only 64 per cent of the Radcliffe girls preferred "war" to "surrender...
East. Britian's Sir David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade, signed a five-year trade agreement in Moscow. Britain's purchases from the Soviet Union (chiefly timber, grain, furs) should now rise by a third over last year's $160 million, and may in time reach a level of 2½% of all British imports. Britain refused Moscow's request for long-term government credit, but expects to sell the Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants...
...Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Soviet journalism-Izvestia (Information), the official daily of the government, and Pravda (Truth), the official daily of the Communist Party-are so packed with pap and propaganda that a few editors have discreetly hinted recently that the two dailies are incredible bores (TIME, June 1). Last week brought a sign that the government had at last decided to print some news that is fit to be read. Named as the new managing editor of Izvestia: round-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, garrulous and gregarious as his father-in-law, who happens to be Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...years,"the Red Chinese have applied every conceivable pressure to force the International Olympic Committee to recognize them as the only representatives of China. They boycotted sessions attended by Nationalist China representatives, withdrew their athletes from events in which Nationalists were entered, finally stalked out of the I.O.C. itself. Soviet Russia and other Communist satellites added their weight. Last week, at the annual meeting in Munich, I.O.C. delegates caved in, voted to expel the Nationalists as the first step toward accepting Red China as "the representative of China." If the Nationalists wanted to reapply as representatives of Formosa, the I.O.C...
...TRADE POLICY is being stiffened by Commerce Department, which approved only $6,626,960 of $21.8 million in applications for Soviet-bloc exports during first quarter this year v. $10,213,000 in last quarter of 1958 out of $16 million in applications. Among items banned: polyethylene, carbon-welded pipeline, stainless steel...