Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Cominform. "An unpleasant shape of things to come in Chinese foreign policy is ... gradually emerging . . . The Peking conference of Asian and Australasian trade unions [held Nov. 16-Dec. 1] marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for the 'national liberation' forces in Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines ... It was finally decided to set up a permanent liaison bureau and secretariat, which . . . would serve as a 'general staff' for all the Communist-led revolutionary movements ... In fact, the Far East...
...applied over a region in which the Chinese imperial monarchy formerly held a kind of paramount position, and in which large Chinese communities have been built up in modern times by emigration from China. It is also the region which, in the abortive Japanese plan for 'Greater East Asia,' was to have been . . . included, together with China, in a bloc of states under Japanese hegemony. The propaganda against 'Anglo-America' which poured forth from Tokyo only five years ago has now been taken over, sometimes in identical phrases, by Communist China...
...prospects of 'Titoism' in China, it is generally assumed that all satellites must be treated alike by the Russians without any degrees of dependence. There have been signs that they are willing to accept from China a much looser form of attachment than is required from the East European satellites. Apart from the vast extent and remoteness of China, the fact that the Chinese Communists have had an army and territory of their own for more than twenty years . . . puts the Chinese in a different category from all other non-Soviet Communists...
...long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail in his office and promptly went into a screaming rage. East German President and Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck then personally ordered Grotewohl confined to the hospital...
...Marks. Finally, in the East, someone mentioned the word that TV fears more than any other. Baltimore's Catholic Review, accusing NBC's adapters of "outdoing Mr. Poe himself" in televising The Fall of the House of Usher, warned: "When one considers that young children view television, it amounts to something that needs censorship...