Word: theoretician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trenches. "A theoretician may figure it out on a mathematical basis, but when we get down to the political realities here in the legislative trenches, where men must make a record on which to run for reelection, we cannot prevent an increase in domestic spending so long as we increase the foreign-aid program...
Eagerly the Communists jumped into the fray. "The ignoble . . . theoretician of the policy of strength," Moscow Radio called Dulles. Peking Radio hurled a Chinese proverb at him: "A man who has had his face slapped into a bloated shape can only pretend he has gained weight." Headlined the U.S. Daily Worker: DULLES...
...relations with the West. Tito assured Nehru that Western aid carried no strings, that the West favored strong, independent countries. Nehru interposed: "Even if they are building Socialism?" Tito answered Nehru: "Provided that they are genuinely independent." The capitalist West simply has to aid underdeveloped countries, said Communist Theoretician Tito, or choke itself with its own productivity. Tito and Nehru subsequently put out a joint communique (written by Nehru) denying that they would form a "third bloc, or third force." In private. Jawaharlal Nehru expressed their reasoning more bluntly: "If we align ourselves with one or the other bloc...
...Hungary, September 1949, Laszlo Rajk, lifelong Communist, top party theoretician, onetime all-powerful Hungarian Interior Minister and later Foreign Minister, pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi. And who got Rajk into the gory plot? "Noel Field," cried the prosecutor, "one of the leaders of American espionage," who "specialized in recruiting spies from among left-wing elements." Verdict: hanging (and burial in unmarked graves) for Laszlo Rajk and four others; life imprisonment...
...Delegates listened dutifully to onrushes of grey gobbledygook, in which the only interesting point was the renewed slavish dedication to Moscow. From Mao: "The people of our country should learn from Soviet Russia and be prepared [through] several five-year plans to build our country." From Moscow-trained theoretician Liu (who rivals Chou for the No. 2 spot): "We are still facing a real danger of a reactionary comeback . . . The Soviet road is the road all humanity will take...