Word: communism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism could be slain by the jaw bone of an ass, in the junior Senator from Connecticut America would have a weapon more insidiously lethal than any atomic blast...
...plans, loud opposition to the Soviet leader's visit continued to be heard across the land. In Washington, a Committee for Freedom for All Peoples distributed black armbands to be worn while he is in the U.S., appealed to the nation for "solidarity with the victims of Communism by a concerted manifestation of national mourning.'^ Among the committee's backers: three U.S. Senators-Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, Illinois' Paul Douglas and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, and two members of the House of Representatives-Majority Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts and Minnesota...
What lay behind the two masks that Communism presented to the world last week? Some guessed that it was part of a global carrot-and-stick exercise, a maneuver planned in Moscow to befuddle the West and destroy its sense of strategic purpose. But many Western diplomats and intelligence agencies believed it more likely that Mao's troublemaking had purely Chinese roots...
Some editorialists also turned their attention to Nehru's old buddy and longtime apologist for Communism, Krishna Menon, Minister of Defense. Wrote top Columnist A. D. Gorwala in the Indian Express: "Let it be remembered that in complete contradiction of his usual practice of jumping eagerly into the discussion of any foreign affairs matter, Mr. Krishna Menon has kept his lips sealed in public about Communist Chinese aggression in Tibet. Not one word of condemnation of brutalities practiced, promises broken, suffering inflicted, has escaped his lips. What confidence can the people of India have if their armed forces...
...industry, confessed Peking. Between the lines could be read the bitter admission that the commune system had resulted only in pushing China's luckless peasants beyond their endurance. The report made sober reading for those Asians who had believed Red China's propaganda about the superiority of Communism as a way of swiftly industrializing a backward nation...