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...endless repetition of the affirmation of high American living standards. This is like the rich man's bragging about his richness before poor people who can never become rich. What the people behind the Iron Curtain really need is for the U.S. to get rid of the Communist yoke-and not an exhibition of U.S. consumer goods...
...readier 19 accept Britain's offer of limited self-government for Cyprus, no less insistent on enosis, i.e., union of Cyprus and Greece. He defiantly eulogized Cyprus' EOKA fighters for their "sacred sacrifice on the altar of freedom," proclaimed "our irrevocable decision to throw off the yoke of slavery." Cried he: "The arguments of the British government for holding on to the island cannot be put above self-determination. Neither can Middle East oil or the so-called defense of the free world from the soil of Cyprus . . . We do not want trusteeship nor to be ruled...
When Henry Cabot Lodge told the U.N. last Friday that America would "not forget" the Soviet satellites and would not abandon efforts to free them from their Communist yoke, he was reasserting a vital part of U.S. foreign policy. The independence of the subjected peoples of Eastern Europe, although no longer a realizable goal, nevertheless remains an ideological basis of Western policy...
Around the clock, Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America pipe words of encouragement to the people behind the Iron Curtain, urging them to throw off the yoke of Communism. But there was no action in Hungary. We stood idly by and watched heroes die. I cannot help believing that now these words, without our backing, were the cause of as many deaths in Hungary as that of Russian rifles. Will the people of the Communist satellites ever place their faith in us again...
...remained faithful Stalinists, though their ways parted. Tito in Yugoslavia organized a Communist-controlled partisan army; Serov back in Russia rounded out his NKVD career as the liquidator of minority nationalities, numbering some millions of people who saw the war as a chance to throw off the Soviet yoke; Pedro became a big wheel in Moscow's Free Germany Committee, and later, under the name of Erno Gero, Stalin's agent in Hungary. When Tito, protected by his 33-division Yugoslav army, broke with Stalin in 1948, it was Erno Gero, Ivan Serov and a whole raft...