Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confused, disputed, the Russian defeat before Warsaw had one plain effect on Russian intellectual life. Ranked as one of the decisive battles of the world, it changed Comintern policy, stopped plans to employ the Red Army to work with the European proletariat, forced Lenin to give up immediate hopes of world revolution, directed Comintern agitation to China and the Far East. Russians decided that they had underestimated Polish national aspirations, and nationalist ambitions everywhere; when Trotsky fell, the defeat was blamed on him, when Tukachevsky was purged, he was called responsible; latest official history of the Communist Party, the Mein...
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay proposed last week to patrol the shores of the east coast of South America lest they be used as bases for warring European sea rovers. It was a big order...
...help readers distinguish between war news and war propaganda last week Manchester Boddy's enterprising Los Angeles Daily News and Evening News adopted a system of labeling European dispatches. The Daily News used alphabetical symbols. OP stood for "official propaganda," SA meant "seems authentic," "V" meant "verified." Over foreign cables in the Evening News were drawings of a key bearing the same words written...
Among the first signs of war in most European cities were lean newspapers. Stripped of their usual verbiage, they were cut down to eight or twelve or 16 pages, in Poland to one sheet. Object (see p. 19): to save newsprint. Many a U. S. publisher, watching his circulation figures soar as fat editions pushed each other off his presses, wondered if presently he too might not feel a paper shortage, followed by rising prices. In World War I newsprint went from $40 a ton to a 1920 peak...
...production crises: i.e., Chicago's Rand McNally map makers were busy 24 hours a day and all hands worked overtime. Reason: production in ten days of what would normally be ten years' output, 1,500,000 maps of Europe. Rand McNally's entire stock of European maps was sold out 24 hours after German troops invaded Poland...