Word: communism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempting to add up the credits-and the debits-of the Khrushchev trip, no one could arrive at a flat sum. The West has many times before received promises from Communism and seen them broken without the blinking of an eye. This time, if the Soviet leader really meant what he said, it appeared that at least some few forward steps had been taken toward creating a peaceful atmosphere. But if, on the other hand, all the talk was just more Communist bunkum, then in terms of world hopes raised and dashed, the Khrushchev trip could only be a fiasco...
With the U.S., under a Republican Administration, preparing to talk turkey with Red leaders, the political opportunity is obvious for Democrats to stake out a position from which they can, if things go sour, charge the G.O.P. with being "soft on Communism." Yet no Democratic presidential candidate in his prudence would ever get that far out on such a limb; Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is too great and, what is more, things might turn out far from sour. That being the case, the party position-staking last week was left to a Democrat who is not running...
...said: "We believe the issues [Shannon] raises are especially important because his position is undoubtedly shared by a number of Democratic leaders-most conspicuously, Dean Acheson-who seem so sorely tempted to 'open up' on the President and even to raise the cry of 'softness on Communism against the Administration. In our judgment it would be a most serious misfortune if that occurred...
...today." When it came time for the predictable message, Khrushchev was, as always, prepared: "These Soviet and American pigs can coexist-why then can't our nations coexist as well? . . . If I may say something in a joking manner-slaves of capitalism live well. But slaves of Communism also live well...
...Orde Wingate was an obscure, 30-year-old British army lieutenant stationed at an obscure post in the Sudan. His future seemed bleak, for most people found him untidy in person and conceited in mind. All his actions tended to infuriate, whether he was receiving visitors naked, or praising Communism to hidebound Tories, or sneering at sports to his athletic fellow officers. It was easy to understand why his schoolboy nickname had been "Stinker...