Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking over heavy industry in this country." Morse's Democratic opposition in the November finals will be Edgar W. Smith, a Portland insurance man and political unknown. Oregon in November will also choose a Senator to fill four years of the late Charles McNary's term. Guy Cordon, interim Senator since McNary's death, got through a tough GOPrimary last week, seems likely to give twice-beaten Democratic Willis Mahoney a third defeat...
Since 1939, no U.S. correspondent has visited Yenan; the Central Government's military cordon around Communist China has effectively halted arms, munitions, medical supplies, funds and correspondents...
Therefore the current Soviet policy is based on the creation of a cordon sanitaire in reverse in Eastern and Central Europe. The small states in this cordon, mutually not too friendly, would be tied to Moscow by agreements like the Soviet-Czech pact. Any overall federation in this area would form a large unit which might become a menace to Russia; that is why Moscow has opposed any Balkan, Danubian or Scandinavian federations...
...question arises: Why should not Russia simply incorporate Eastern and Central Europe instead of monkeying around with a reverse cordon sanitaire? The answers may be that:1) such a drastic action might endanger the U.S.S.R.'s relation with Britain and the U.S., and might even precipitate a war, which Russia would do anything to avoid; 2) the Russians know how to organize disorganized territories, prefer to let the small States run themselves in a stable (i.e., a proSoviet...
Thus Russia once again served notice of her determination to block revival of the old cordon sanitaire idea of unfriendly buffer states between Russia and the west. What western statesmen had to worry about was whether Russia intended to make this impossible by setting up its own form of cordon "insanitaire" among the central and eastern European countries...