Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Current news reports would indicate that Russia may have inspired the Chinese Communist arrest of our Mukden Consul, Mr. Angus Ward, which of course makes any recognition of the Poking regime by us at the moment impossible. To those Chinese Communists who want to have continued relations with the United States, this arrest may have seemed like a smart form of pressure; but of course we will never yield to it. For the Russians, it is a convenient way of keeping China out of contact with us. This Russian angle should be carefully noted...
...Most of us have some pet interest we're concentrating on," comments Donald J. Gonzales, United Press diplomatic reporter. "With me it's international relations, political and economic." Gonzales finds time for six courses, ranging from "Russia and the West" to elementary French...
...courses run as pronounced favorites. Eleven are taking Professor Frederick Merk's "History of the Westward Movement," while other popular courses include Professor John K. Fairbank's History of "Far Eastern Civilization," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger's "Cultural History of the United States," and visiting Professor Robert Wolf's "Russia and the West...
...first interview with Stalin, Smith put the question bluntly: " 'How far is Russia going to go?' Looking directly at me, Stalin replied, 'We're not going much further.' " That was in 1946, before the Communists swallowed Czechoslovakia and most of China...
Prokofiev: Cinderella (the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Warwick Braithwaite conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...