Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gets Slapped. In France, no Communist Party leader seems yet ready to break away from Moscow. Only three have enough stature to pull off such a rebellion: Maurice Thorez, Jacques Duclos and André Marty. But Duclos is not considered ambitious enough, and Marty is too blindly loyal to Stalin, to rise against Moscow. Thorez, French political experts believe, has the inclination to rebel but so far he has lacked the guts. Three times he has been slapped down by Moscow for being too "nationalistic." Each time he has abjectly begged forgiveness...
...Vienna's coffee. But what delighted Viennese stomachs most during the holiday season were fat geese and pungent salamis imported from Austria's Eastern European neighbors. The Russians are hoping that, when the U.S. ECAid ends in 1952, need to trade with Communist Eastern Europe will pull Austria inexorably into the Red sphere...
...Dictatorship can compete with dictatorships, and a free virile democracy can outpace any such in the long pull. But a people bent on a soft security, surrendering their birthright of individual self-reliance for favors, voting themselves into Eden from a supposedly inexhaustible public purse, supporting everyone by soaking a fast disappearing rich, scrambling for subsidy, learning the arts of political logrolling and forgetting the rugged virtues of the pioneer, will not measure up to competition with a tough dictatorship...