Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transport Workers Union, who sailed from the U.S. in 1949 to escape deportation. Before he departed for Hungary, where he became a government official, Santo had hurled a final diatribe: "Rulers" are riding the American people to the profit of Wall Street, using "labor lackeys and traitor agents" to "turn back the tide of history." Escaping Hungary Santo told New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn that he hoped for "asylum in my own country -America" where he would "take my chances with the American system." No longer was he worried about U.S. "labor lackeys" and "traitor agents." Said Santo...
...Communist world: a frantic attempt to fasten the guilt for the Hungarian revolt. Tito got caught in the crossfire. Pravda accused him of being an accomplice of the "counterrevolutionary" Nagy, and hinted that Tito's talk of "many roads to' socialism" underlay all the trouble. Tito, in turn, indignantly blamed Hungary on Moscow's failure to purge all the old "Stalinists." But he was also careful to disown Nagy, and to justify the use of Soviet tanks, thus supporting Moscow where it counted: in its crushing of the rebellion...
Thomas, who has frequently criticized the Administration's foreign policy, urged support of "Eisenhower's effort to use the U.N. as the world's main hope of avoiding World War III." He blamed Truman and Acheson for "failure to turn truce into peace before Russia [could achieve the] strength to interfere so ominously in the Middle East." Concluded Thomas: "The President, however, and the American people, who must deal with things as they now are, can only be hurt by the kind of pontificating [exemplified by] the Alsop effort...
Randall asserted that Russia's failure to turn out enough liberally educated persons, "may prove to be the Achilles heel of the Communist dynasty. Our ultimate superiority may rest upon maintaining in our country the proper balance" between scientific and liberal educations...
Attitudes such as these are unfortunate, for they not only turn a potential source of international good will into a political gaming-board, but they also alienate the smaller countries. For when team scores are emphasized, the smaller countries (Russia and the U.S. captured more than two-thirds of the places in the 1952 Olympics) are naturally made to look...