Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts to divert the public mind, Joseph Paul-Boncour. the new Foreign Minister and great League of Nations apostle, announced that German agents are busy in Alsace-Lorraine fomenting "Hitlerian intrigues" and that orders have been given for their arrest...
Photographic evidence from Moscow and Rome to settle the most significant controversy in which Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff has become involved in recent years arrived in the U. S. last week. The case has concerned M. Fedor Butenko, one of the New Bolsheviks who are being spectacularly advanced in the Soviet Union by Dictator Stalin to replace the liquidated Old Bolsheviks. Since Stalin's purge has been mowing down Soviet diplomats right & left, the Moscow diplomatic school has to work fast and overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house...
...neck, and then provided a pretty good reason for their propinquity by going on to denounce Joseph Stalin and excoriate conditions in the Soviet Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that "torture" might have been applied in Italy to extort statements hostile to Stalin from a Russian of some sort. In Soviet papers it was said that Rome papers were printing pictures of "Butenko" which...
...policy, Crawford and Strasberg withdrew from the Group, Clurman remained. Cheryl Crawford set up as her own producer, last week made her bow with All the Living. Strasberg became a free lance. Both Crawford and Strasberg represent the vanguard of the U. S. theatre; both have a background of foreign experimentalism. Strasberg, originally influenced by Actor-Director Constantine Stanislavsky of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, favors a naturalistic technique, insists that actors should "do all the small things, not worry about the big things...
...heart disease. A leader in Greece's Conservative Democratic Party and a Cabinet member for more than a decade all told, he last month was exiled to one of Greece's tiny islands in the Aegean Sea for "trying to undermine the country's finances, foreign policy and public order by secretly circulating libelous leaflets...