Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact of incalculable importance. If human beings can be reduced to mindless production-line cogs, Red China may one day achieve the stature for which its rulers yearn. But, so far. the crucial elements of Chinese Communist power are still supplied by Russia. It was not Chinese strength but the fear of Russian involvement that ultimately led the U.S. to deny itself the means to victory in Korea. The smattering of glittering modern factories in China is also courtesy of Russia. And as Mao Tse-tung himself said almost a decade ago, so long as China must rely economically...
Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro, pushing out foot by foot from the Sierra Maestra, near which he landed Dec. 2, 1956. now dominates a third of the island's land area (see map). His strength in guerrillas and arms is rising, but exactly how much is a secret veiled by the downed wires and cut roads that go into the wild country he lurks in. Dictator Fulgencio Batista keeps a hold on Havana, where a fifth of all Cubans live, and all other sizable cities, and still controls the labor unions, most of the press, an army estimated...
...leftist U.R.D. (Democratic Republican Union) Party, which also nominated him. But the Communists, who believe they will make an impressive showing in Venezuela's first free election since 1947, wanted their followers to vote on the party's own red-colored ballots so that Communist strength could be plainly exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race: Rómulo Betancourt. of the leftist Democratic Action Party: Rafael Caldera, of the Catholic...
...President, speaking to a relatively similar audience, had used the same theme, but with a more positive tone. To him there seemed to be no evil inherent in neutralism; in fact, he stressed the necessity for strength in the new countries, not the necessity of their joining Western military alliances...
...ideals expressed--essentially reaffirmations of Point Four--could have been interpreted as an extension of America's commitment to further the economic and political strength of the newly free, underdeveloped nations. Unfortunately, the President's qualifications to this commitment render his program unconvincing. Just as in his first post-election conference he intoned his economizing refrain, "I think every place we are spending too much money," his Colombo talk was characterized by financial cowardice...