Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stalin called his tyranny "democratic centralism." The most irremediably bleak and oppressive of the European satellites, East Germany, styles itself the German Democratic Republic. For that matter, all the satellites are fond of calling themselves "peoples' democracies." That tag was adopted by Indonesian Dictator Sukarno after he gave up the patently absurd mislabel of "guided democracy"-which has now been picked up by Malawi President H. Kamuzu Banda, who explains blandly, "I am a dictator by the will of the people." Southern Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith, busy developing a political hammer lock to keep some 250,000 whites...
...meanwhile, New York's Phoenix Theater, under the leadership of idealistic Producers T. Edward Hambleton and Norris Houghton, had been putting on everything from Oh Dad, Poor Dad ... to the Western première of Russia's The Dragon, a banned-at-home critique of Stalin and Khrushchev. In the way of the worthy, the Phoenix had run on a healthy yearly deficit. Joining with the APA seemed a natural evolution. The Phoenix yearned for a permanent repertory group-their own efforts to establish one having failed-so they could eliminate the traumas of one-shot productions, plan...
Ministerial Swap. At 75, Ho is the senior Communist leader in Asia. Red China's Mao Tse-tung was still a party underling in 1923 when Ho was tapped by Stalin to lead the revolution in Asia. Though Mao now swings more weight, Ho is reluctant to accept him as any kind of overlord, subtly and cautiously tries to play Mao off against the Russians in order to secure greater freedom of action for himself. Says one Western diplomat admiringly: "The older Ho gets, the more skilled he becomes at playing one man against another, one faction against another...
...Churchill's Foreign Secretary and acknowledged heir, he had the power to dispute the Prime Minister's judgment, and frequently did. As early as 1942 he foresaw the postwar threat of Russia and at summit councils vigorously opposed the inclination of Churchill and Roosevelt to give Stalin just about anything he demanded. The Reckoning could have rested securely on those wartime achievements. But the memoirist could not resist shrouding them with the dark afterthoughts that beset the involuntary and unhappy exile from power...
...interest in Europe probably sprang from "his hobby of stamp collecting. But the academic yet sweeping opinions which he built upon it were alarming in their cheerful fecklessness. Too much a conjuror, skillfully juggling with balls of dynamite whose nature he failed to understand." All told, Eden preferred Joe Stalin, though he did not trust him: "Indeed, after something like 30 years' experience of international conferences, if I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice. Of course the man was ruthless...