Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspection and control." The West, accustomed to Russian doubletalk on disarmament and thoroughly unimpressed by Khrushchev's big U.N. propaganda pitch, took a hard look at this statement, got ready to find out, when the nuclear-test-ban talks resume next month in Geneva, if the Russians will take a more realistic position on inspection...
...everything possible to preclude war as a means of settling outstanding questions"; five times in as many minutes he had sounded the call for "peaceful coexistence"; in pointed reference to his U.S. trip, he declared that "the leaders of many capitalist states are being forced more and more to take account of realities." Mao smiled and applauded, but made no answer...
...every other respect, gelid Liu Shao-chi is the perfect Communist-a mechanical man who comes close to realizing his own dictum: "A party member is required to sacrifice his interests to the party unconditionally." Even the public appearances intended to humanize him invariably take on a grim tone. When a small child cut its hands tending potato vines in a commune, Liu's reaction was hard advice: "Do not be scared by a little blood." And when a Communist bureaucrat, whom he was lecturing on the need for working-class experience, observed, "There are still people who regard...
...another purge in Peking was scarcely enough to take the peasants' minds off their woes. For that purpose, Mao & Co. raised the cry that "foreign imperialists" were threatening peace-loving China. It was a hoary gambit, especially for Peking. In 1950 the Communists had helped consolidate their initial conquest of China by intervention in Korea. The bombardment of Quemoy in 1958 had helped reconcile China's masses to the strains of the big leap. Now, to divert attention from its failure, Peking could point to the bloody revolt in Tibet, Indian "aggression" along the Tibetan frontier...
...danger was that France might take Abbas' words at face value. In fact, much of what he said was clearly designed to establish a bargaining position, and some of it was equally clearly intended as window dressing to make the idea of a possible cease-fire palatable to extremist anti-French forces within the rebel ranks. The essential point was that for the first time since the fighting began the rebels had tacitly agreed to abide by the verdict of a peaceful Algerian referendum...