Word: vivendi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism at home by adopting harsh police measures against local Communists, and, at the same time, has managed to keep on good terms with Mao Tse-tung? And in Europe who more fitting than Sir Winston Churchill to meet Malenkov, as he has proposed, and hammer out a modus vivendi between the Communist and non-Communist worlds? This specious reasoning presupposes that the American and Russian systems can be roughly equated. If the political police are vested with undue authority in Russia, so is Senator McCarthy and the FBI in America; if Soviet corrective labor camps are reprehensible...
Louis Nemzer, Research associate in the Russian Research Center, feels that should Malenkov gain power it would be much more difficult to "work out a modus vivendi" with the Russians. He called Malonkov a "primitive, crude, isolationist type," pointing out that he has rarely been outside the country and is almost completely ignorant of foreign problems. He also has a reputation for being "the most unpleasant and inaccessible" of the top Soviet leaders, according to Nemzer...
...believe that the Polish bishops had signed the agreement. Said a Vatican aide: "It is incredible that an agreement of this scope could have been negotiated without Cardinal Sapieha's knowledge. It could be only a dictate." Said another official: "The Communists describe the pact as a modus vivendi-a way of living. Actually, it is a modus morendi-a way of dying...