Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further, he wanted: 1) continuing Soviet proofs of good international intentions; 2) previous agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...
Outside Looking In. In hard fact, Britain's relations with France-and with much of the rest of Western Europe-were at their lowest ebb in years. To intimates. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer confided his dark suspicions that British foreign policy was prepared to offer the Germans up on a platter to achieve easier relations with Russia. The six continental nations who had allied themselves in the budding Common Market were convinced that Britain, with its free-trade counterproposals, had been trying to destroy unity on the Continent. The suspicions were often exaggerated, but Britain, whose influence...
...conference took place just 200 miles from Bandung, where in 1955 newly liberated Afro-Asian nations, full of hostility toward their former rulers, joined in opposition to all colonialism. Red China was there too. Since then Red China has lost friends over Tibet, the older Western nations have won increased understanding of their own motives because they have learned to understand the new nation better, and the new nations themselves have gained in political maturity. The harsh spirit of Bandung was hardly detectable among the delegates who in Jogjakarta last week enthusiastically voted to continue the Colombo Plan until...
...Western correspondents kicked out of Iron Curtain countries on trumped-up charges of "false reporting" were laid end to end, the line might reach from Washington back to Moscow. Last week another free-world newsman got the boot -but with a rare compliment. Brusquely ordered to leave Poland was A. (for Abraham) M. (for Michael) Rosenthal, 37, the New York Times''s resident staffer in Warsaw. The Communist Polish government did not even pretend that Rosenthal had been misreporting. Rather, it accused him of having "probed too deeply into the affairs concerning the Communist Party and its leadership...
...Filing stories that the heavily censored Polish press dared not print, Rosenthal disclosed that the Soviet Union was sending meat to Poland to meet the food shortage. He wrote a complete account of the denunciation by the Soviet Ambassador to Poland of the Polish press for its admiration of Western literature, films and art. He described in detail both the chilly welcome given to visiting Premier Nikita Khrushchev in July and the tumultuous greeting awarded U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon a week later. A fortnight ago, Rosenthal described Polish Communist Party Leader Gomulka as a "moody, irascible" man whose "leadership...