Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wake of President Truman's icy blast of news that Russia had the bomb, the Japanese had adopted a new catchword to replace banzai. It was "peace...
Half of Berlin always lived from the city's service functions as the capital of the Reich; the other half from its concentrated industry. The capital disappeared in the defeat; 85% of the factories were grabbed by Russia...
When slim, brown-haired Martha Lucas took over the presidency of Virginia's Sweet Briar College for women in 1946, she announced that she would "promote world awareness in every possible way." She planned new instruction "on the Orient, Russia, South America," a broad curriculum which would include "the intellectual experience of the whole of mankind." Sweet Briar soon learned that President Lucas was a woman deeply concerned about the world...
Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung last week cut off news from Red China to U.S. and other Western papers. In Shanghai, his Alien Affairs Bureau ordered all correspondents, except those representing publications in countries which had recognized the new regime (i.e., Russia, its satellites and Yugoslavia), to stop filing cables. That left Hong Kong and Canton as the only major news centers in China still open to U.S. newsmen. Protested the U.S. State Department: "A crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). "Russia." Guest: Harold, E. Stassen...