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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor Harold Ross, a man who gets a lot of professional mileage out of his frustrations, appeared in person to answer. He identified himself caustically: "I am the editor of an adult comic book . . . to put it heavy-handedly . . . and I commute back & forth through the terminal." A poll by...
In the West, too, there were tremors. As long as the Western Communist Parties are not in power,* they depend on Moscow for survival and cannot afford rebellion. Nevertheless, Titoism, i.e., the heresy of holding one's own national interests above Russian interests, has had some limited, clearly discernible...
Even Communist bigwigs are prey to dangerous indifference. One of Togliatti's own close friends, who felt that the Kremlin was taking itself altogether too seriously, recently remarked: "The best cure for the Russians would be a year in Naples where they could learn to laugh." In Eastern Europe...
In their own city, almost five years after World War II, the Viennese still chafed under Allied occupation. The British and Americans would have pulled out long ago, but the Russians would not agree to a peace settlement, save on Russian terms. The Viennese made sad jokes about their situation...
Bidault's Finance Minister Maurice Petsche had prepared a budget of 2 trillion 275 billion francs ($6,500,000,000), had balanced it, at least on paper, by calling for 200 billion francs in new taxes. The Radical Socialists (conservatives) drafted what they considered a more realistic budget which...