Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Make the Next Move." Moving briskly to his "action passage," Molotov chose to restate the Soviet disarmament plan presented in London on May 10. It was a clever document, advocating 1) a reduction in conventional armaments (Russia, Red China and the U.S. down to 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 men each, Britain and France to 650,000) and 2) a world conference to prohibit atomic weapons...
Last week, at 92, Pattillo Higgins died and ended his restless search for oil. He left among his papers a document dated Dec. 3, 1901, signed by 32 citizens of Beaumont, Tex., and attested by the county clerk. It was a sort of apology, and it said in part: "Mr. Higgins deserves the whole honor of discovering and developing the Beaumont oil field. He located the exact spot where all the big gushers are now found...
Back in Belgrade. Russians and Yugoslavs met again in the Hall of Guards to sign the communiqué threshed out by their underlings. While the 1,500-word document was read aloud, Khrushchev made little faces at a couple of Russian cameramen he spotted in the crowd. When the reading finished, Tito signed for Yugoslavia, and Premier Bulganin, for the first time accorded the leading role, signed for Russia. The instant the signing was over. Khrushchev took over, leaping up to shake every hand within reach...
When the world's No. 1 Communist says that a document is "a fabrication of the enemies of the people and agents of imperialism who entered the ranks of our party by deceitful means," a Communist who had a hand in preparing that document might be expected to stay quiet. Not so Vittorio Vidali, Communist boss of Trieste. No sooner had Vidali read Comrade Khrushchev's fulsome apology to ex-Comrade Tito last week than he was ready with a counterblast that denied it all. "Our surprise at that statement," wrote Vidali, "has been enormous. Our party...
Instead of echoing the Marxist manifesto, the new preamble proclaims allegiance to "our way of life and the fundamental freedoms which are the basis of our democratic society." The words "struggle." "oppressed." "capitalist" and "laborer" are not even mentioned in the document...