Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As the Red tide engulfed the China mainland (see FOREIGN NEWS), non-Communist capitals from Washington to New Delhi faced an increasingly urgent question: Should they recognize the Chinese Communists?
The new international's major concern would be "organizing the unorganized on a world basis, reorganizing the disorganized." From the Brussels headquarters organizers will go out to help infant labor movements in industrially backward countries -e.g., Korea and India. Representatives will be sent to watch labor conditions in the...
Boss of the new organization is plump, pink-cheeked General Secretary Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed...
Said the manifesto: "We assert that economic and political democracy are inseparable . . . [We call on the world's workers to] unite with us to achieve a world in which people are free from Communist, Fascist, Falangist and other forms of totalitarianism."
The British are known to favor recognition, chiefly and frankly because they want to safeguard their large trading interests in China. Advocates of recognition in the U.S., whose China trade has always been relatively small, advance more speculative reasons. Most of them base their position on two assumptions: 1) the...