Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greeks voted in a crucial plebiscite last week. Nominally, they were voting whether or not to bring back King George II from British exile. Actually, they were deciding whether Greece should remain the only Balkan country uncontrolled by Russia, or become a Soviet satellite, as would surely happen if leftists won. At week's end, not all the votes had been counted. But the result seemed certain: Royalist victory...
Peace Bait & War Threat. Whispered predictions of what will happen if the SED loses include: further dismantling and removal of German industries to Russia, reduced food rations, even worse economic conditions and heavier reparations, and still stricter control by the Soviet occupation authorities. The crassest of whispered slogans is: "If you want peace, vote for the SED. If you want war vote...
...show that Zinchenko has a sense of humor. An American newsman in Moscow was giving him a sales talk on freedom: "Why, back home," he said, "I can march into the White House at any time, shout 'Down with Truman!' and then march out. Nothing would happen to me." Grinned Zinchenko: "I can do that, too. I can march into the Kremlin at any time, shout 'Down with Truman!' and nothing will happen to me, either...
Cried a commission man at Chicago's Union Stockyards: "It was like having the deliriums. You might as well ask a steer to read the newspaper as try to figure out what would happen...
...proposed is hard to say. Whatever it was, he now concludes that Europe's present tension is due largely to the U.S.'s failure to insist on a "democratic revolution" over there, via the Two-Way Passage idea or something like it. His summary of what did happen: Churchill, symbolizing "Conquest" rather than "Liberation," was able to "seduce" F.D.R. into a "counterrevolutionary foreign policy" by drumming up the dangers of the U.S.S.R. Author Adamic himself sees the U.S.S.R. as no particular danger to anyone. He considers it the source of "a new dynamism toward general welfare" rather than...