Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such special occasions as the Foreign Ministers' conferences of 1945 and 1947). More than 40 U.S., British, French, Canadian, German and Indian newsmen were covering Russia, many on guided tours. The German and Indian reporters were obviously invited as part of the stepped-up Communist campaign to woo their countries politically. At least three of the U.S. correspondents (New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelley, New York Post's Seymour Freidin and National Broadcasting Co.'s Jack Begon) got visas as a result of Khrushchev's tipsy invitation in Belgrade early last month after...
...other and more fascinating of the European dramas was staged in Yugoslavia, where the top men of Soviet Russia went to call on, to apologize to and to woo Dictator Tito, a man they had repeatedly condemned as a traitor, murderer and spy. Seldom in all history has so powerful a nation so abjectly reversed its position before the watching eyes of the world (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Satevepost pays a new writer $750 for his first piece, then jumps in steps of $250 to as high as $2,500, or even $3,000. Collier's averages $1,500 for an article, the Reader's Digest $2,000, but both magazines go higher. Editors also woo writers by other means, e.g., the Post specializes in "Fast service," tries to give a free-lancer "an answer on an article or an idea within 30 hours after receiving it. Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace often sends handsome bonuses to writers whose work he likes...
...obvious that there is one central purpose of the forthcoming Russian visit: not necessarily to woo Tito into the Moscow camp--there is little chance of that--but to draw one more state from the Western defense system into a great neutral chain the length of Central Europe. The aspect of this latest venture which is not so obvious is its great departure from previous Soviet policy. In the present case, the move is not primarily military, as, say, was the establishment of the Berlin blockade or the arming of the satellite nations. Moscow now is holding out to Tito...
...enough to buck Ho Chi Minh, the U.S.-backed nationalists can make a case for postponing the elections, or put them off altogether unless they get ironclad assurance of 1) proper supervision at the polls and 2) the right of nationalists to campaign in the north and try to woo away some of Ho's votes...