Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME of Nov. 6 quotes New York Times Correspondent Tolischus' anecdote quoting Stalin as having reassured a Baltic foreign minister with the words, "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians"-meaningful words turned meaningless because of a slight error. The reference is, of course, to imperialist traditions of Tsarist days, when the Great-Russians (Velikorussy) dominated the White-Russians (Belorussy), the Little-Russians (Malorussy) or Ukrainians and countless non-Russians, including the Baltic nationalities and Stalin's own native Georgians. Thus, Stalin spoke as one member of an oppressed nationality to another-as crude...
...joint import program. British and French foreign financial resources and bargaining power shall be pooled, so that the Allies buy together instead of competitively in neutral countries. Equally important, each shall buy in the other's Empire so far as possible, so that the transactions can be on paper and the joint reserves of gold and foreign exchange husbanded. Those old allies, the pound and the franc, shall of course march together in international exchange till death doth them part...
...American history broadcasts, which are being developed with the cooperation of the faculty counsellors of President Conant's program for extra-curricular study of American civilization, will include the following subjects: meaning of the westward movement; agricultural conservation; problem of immigration and foreign minorities; history of trade unionism; history of the Supreme Court; changing concepts of American destiny; economic integration of America; American idealism and religions; history of the theatre; and public health...
...last half of her book is devoted to the Civil War, which she prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that...
...Russian foreign policy rests entirely in Stalin's hands, who will take that course which is most likely to keep himself in power, Professor Karpovich said...