Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political issues you've got every right to speak your preference. However, there is no excuse in using a badly retouched, unflattering picture of Adlai on your cover...
...partisans go further and claim that Nehru speaks for all Asia. This is manifest nonsense. Nehru does not speak for Mao's China, for Japan, for the Philippines, for Formosa, for Korea, for Thailand, for North or South Viet Nam, for Afghanistan, for Pakistan. His influence is principally felt in Ceylon, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaya and Indonesia...
There were also immense problems of diversity and disunity. Indians speak some 200 dialects, including 14 distinct major languages. India's teeming masses are bedeviled by almost every form of intolerance known to man. The mutual religious antipathy between Hindus (303 million), Moslems (35.4 million) and Sikhs (6.2 million) is always close to the boiling point. The nation's 50 million untouchables suffer from caste discrimination, resting, in the words of an Indian government official, on "prejudices deeper than the one against Negroes in the U.S." The 26 million ebony-colored Tamils claim that fair-skinned northerners (like...
...weather Russians deserved even better from the republic. Several delegates observed that they did not like Bulganin's plan for 15% lower pensions for country dwellers (on the theory that countryfolk had little gardens and presumably would not go hungry). All in all 33 delegates were scheduled to speak...
...days later stocky Auguste Lecoeur, once considered a logical successor to Thorez, but drummed out of the party in 1954 for criticizing party strategy, was scheduled to speak in the northern French town of Hénin-Liétard, where he had once been a Communist Deputy. Lecoeur is busy these days trying to promote an independent leftist movement. The Communist Party issued orders: "All workers will prevent Lecoeur from performing his nefarious piece of work." When the doors of the hall opened, a crowd of 1,000 Communist bullyboys, who had descended...