Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Potsdam conferees had decided that German assets in Eastern Austria could be seized by Russia for reparations. For two years, the Deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers have been deadlocked on the question of precisely what constitutes German assets; the Russians, for example, include in their definition properties which the Nazis seized from the Austrians after the Anschluss. The Big Four might interminably haggle over half a billion dollars' worth of factories, oilfields and Danube River shipping, but all the competent authorities were agreed on one fact: Herr Kaiser's three rings seemed to be German assets...
From a quiet office in Manhattan, Engineer George Q. Herrick, of the Voice of America, was fighting a furious electronic battle last week for Russia's radio audience. His weapons were powerful transmitters spotted through the northern hemisphere. His projectiles were radio waves. Herrick chalked up a victory whenever the Voice's broadcasts broke through Soviet jamming to reach Russian ears...
...soon regretted the decision. He hated the work: getting out the sheet each week, rewriting the prince's pompous, half-literate articles, churning out copy for his own column, "The Diary of a Writer." And though The Citizen whooped it up for Czar and Russia, Dostoevsky found himself in several scrapes with the censors; once he was sent to jail for 48 hours for having violated a bureaucratic regulation...
...felt lost. He suffered from nightmares in which his little girl was flogged to death as she piteously cried, "Mamochka! Mamochka!" His only solace was a girl who read proof for The Citizen. They would sit up late, reading galleys over a kerosene lamp and arguing about God and Russia. Sometimes he would explode in fits of rage, pounding the table and shouting "The Antichrist is coming! . . . The end of the world is near at hand...
...Berlin is well qualified in Russian studies. He was born in the Baltic city of Riga in 1909 and learned the language there. He moved to England as a boy and went to college at Oxford, where he later became a member of the faculty. He returned to Russia in 1945, however, for a year as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow. Before taking the Russian post, he was with the Ministry of Information in New York from 1941-42 and then moved to the Embassy in Washington as First Secretary. For his war service the King made...