Security-Government Printing Office, Vol. 1
Security-Government Printing Office, Vol. 1

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Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781332281374

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Excerpt from Security-Government Printing Office, Vol. 1: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-Third Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res; 40 Senator Dirksen. Photographers, television and otherwise, will desist from taking the pictures of Mrs. Rothschild, and, Mrs. Rothschild, will you come forward? You will not be asked to testify at this time. Will you come up and stand approximately here in the corner of these two tables. (Mrs. Rothschild came forward.) Senator Dirksen. You do not have to take a seat. Now will you turn around and confront the witness who is occupying the witness stand? Mrs. Markward, you take a good look at Mrs. Rothschild and then you tell the committee whether this is the same Esther Rothschild that you knew during your activities in the Communist Party in this area. Mrs. Markward. It most definitely is. Senator Dirksen. You could not be mistaken about the identity of Mrs. Rothschild? Mrs. Markward. I could not. Senator Dirksen. That is all for the moment, Mrs. Rothschild. Mr. Ford. May I ask the committee to put into the record the distance that this witness was from this witness at the time she made the identification? Senator Dirksen. Yes, if that is material. The record can show that she was approximately 6 feet away. Now, Mrs. Markward, in your own language. I wonder if you will first of all detail some of your activities and your responsibilities and functions while you were a member of the Communist Party in the District, of Columbia ? Mrs. Markward. When I learned that I was to work in the District of Columbia, I was assigned to the Northeast Club of the Communist Party. I was a member of that club, during the time of the Communist Party prior to the time it was made the Communist Political Association. I became press director of that club in October, after I had joined the party in May. I was elected the president of the club in January or February of 1944. When the Communist Political Association was formed, I was elected to the city committee of the Communist Political Association of Washington, D. C. Senator Dirksen. Pardon me. I wonder if you will pull those microphones just a little closer to you. Probably they are not quite so sensitive. The Chairman. And speak a little more slowly, if you will. Senator Dirksen. Proceed. Mrs. Markward. I was elected to the city committee of the Communist Political Association. I was elected treasurer of the Communist Political Association of Washington, D. C. Shortly after the elections I was made membership director of the Communist Political Association of Washington, D. C. I retained those posts during the time of the Communist Political Association, which lasted nationally until about August of 1945. It was subsequently changed to the Communist Party of the State of Maryland, and it was October of 1945 when the actual change of name was made in Washington, D. C. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Politics of Peace
The Politics of Peace

Author: Petra Goedde

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0199912521

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During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of world peace and mounting the first serious challenge to the state-centered conduct of international relations. This study explores the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations, during the early cold war. It traces the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought over a seemingly universal concept. These dynamic interactions involved three sets of global actors: cold war states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. These transnational networks challenged and eventually undermined the cold war order. They did so not just with reference to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, but also by addressing the violence of national liberation movements in the Third World. As Petra Goedde shows in this work, deterritorializing the cold war reveals the fractures that emerged within each cold war camp, as activists both challenged their own governments over the right path toward global peace and challenged each other over the best strategy to achieve it. The Politics of Peace demonstrates that the scientists, journalists, publishers, feminists, and religious leaders who drove the international discourse on peace after World War II laid the groundwork for the eventual political transformation of the Cold War.

Economic Cold War
Economic Cold War

Author: Shu Guang Zhang

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780804739306

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Why would one country impose economic sanctions against another in pursuit of foreign policy objectives? How effective is the use of such economic weapons? This book examines how and why the United States and its allies instituted economic sanctions against the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, and how the embargo affected Chinese domestic policy and the Sino-Soviet alliance.

The Specter of Communism
The Specter of Communism

Author: Melvyn P. Leffler

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 080908791X

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The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. "The Specter of Communism" is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death of Stalin. Using not only American documents but also those from newly opened archives in Russia, China, and Eastern Europe, Leffler shows how the ideological animosity that existed from Lenin's seizure of power onward turned into dangerous confrontation. By focusing on American political culture and American anxieties about the Soviet political and economic threat, Leffler suggests new ways of understanding the global struggle staged by the two great powers of the postwar era.

From Disarmament to Rearmament
From Disarmament to Rearmament

Author: Sheldon A. Goldberg

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0821446223

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At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany. As the Cold War intensified, however, the decision whether to reverse that policy and to rearm West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet threat led to disagreements both within the US government and among members of the nascent NATO alliance. The US military took the practical view that a substantial number of German troops would be required to deter any potential Soviet assault. The State Department, on the other hand, initially advocated an alternative strategy of strengthening European institutions but eventually came around to the military’s position that an armed West Germany was preferable to a weak state on the dividing line between the Western democracies and the Soviet satellite states. Sheldon A. Goldberg traces the military, diplomatic, and political threads of postwar policy toward West Germany and provides insights into the inner workings of alliance building and the roles of bureaucrats and military officers as well as those of diplomats and statesmen. He draws on previously unexamined primary sources to construct a cogent account of the political and diplomatic negotiations that led to West Germany’s accession to NATO and the shaping of European order for the next forty years.

A Substitute for Victory
A Substitute for Victory

Author: Rosemary Foot

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780801424137

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After more than two years of bitter negotiations during which combatants and civilians continued to suffer casualties, the Korean armistice was concluded in July 1953. Focusing on the Americans' formulation of negotiating positions and on their attempts to coordinate political goals with military tactics, Rosemary Foot here charts the tortuous path to peace and offers a new explanation for the agonizing length of the talks. She also takes into account the role of the Western allies and the Indian, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese governments as she examines the complex international setting in which the armistice took place.