Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politicians, her fellow rich ("The only thing I like about them is their money"), Communists, Socialists, Nazis, Yankees, liquor manufacturers, newspapers (her husband's family owned two), antifeminists, the cult of the Common Man. It was idealism, not malice, that propelled her bricks and bons mots. She scolded Stalin for "shooting your enemies, and that sort of thing," scorned the late Joe McCarthy to his face, belittled the Vanderbilts as parvenus: "The Astors skinned skunks a century before the Vanderbilts worked ferries...
...York Journal-American. The assignment did not suit him, although he showed occasional flashes of style. One of his best cartoons, done in 1950 after the Russians had accused the U.S. of starting the Korean war, was deliberately run upside down. It was a portrait of Stalin exhibiting a scroll of poetry...
...finally the withdrawal of Soviet economic aid. The Rumanian delegation that journeyed to Peking several months ago, in the hope of renewing Russo-Chinese dialogue, heard the most vitriolic denunciation of Premier Khrushchev, whom the Chinese blame personally for reneging on the large aid-and-trade agreement that followed Stalin's death. The Rumanians had to insist that Khrushchev is but a responsive politician, attuned to the desires of of a people who, after 45 years of paying for their own industrialization, the War, and then the arms race, are unwilling to make another vast outlay at the expense...
...like other Eastern Europeans, the Rumanians tend to believe the Chinese assertion that Russia abuses and exploits her neighbors. By laying rhetorical claim to the mantle of Stalin the Chinese seem to have sacrificed this considerable latent support, and imposed a historical confusion on the dispute. Stalin's 30-year career of meddling in the affairs of Chinese Communism won him the enmity, not the admiration, of Mao Tse Tung. As for de-Stalinization, Isaac Deutscher is not the only student of Communist affairs who regards Mao's abortive effort to "let a hundred flowers bloom" as a more sincere...
Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...