Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the publishers declare that "this is not warmongering," George Fielding Eliot, in "If Russia Strikes," begins by assuming that there will be wear between the United States and Russia, with the only question being one of time. "We cannot make peace with the present rulers of the Soviet Union," he states on the first page. Thus, as long as the present regime rules Russia the only peace will be one of armed waiting--waiting...
Anxiety Is Unbecoming. The West had decided it must stand resolutely at Paris, give in to none of Russia's baited proposals. That would leave Russia an excellent chance to make the West look like the enemy of German unity. But the Russians had peddled the same propaganda line before, without notable success...
Four years after war's end, Soviet Russia still keeps more than a million German and Japanese in her slave labor camps. Not all of them were taken as prisoners of war; many are civilians, including women taken from Eastern Germany. Little is known in the West about their fate; only an occasional carefully phrased postcard message reaches their families. But some have been released, and in its current issue the British Medical Journal published a memorable report on how such prisoners fare...
...report was a cold, painstaking case history of six German women, taken to Russia in 1945, who were released last summer and made their way to the British zone of Germany. They were Ida and Elli, both 21; Hanna, 24; Margret, 26; Agnes, 32 and Emma, 37. Cambridge University's Dr. Reginald Dean, engaged in nutrition research in Wuppertal, took down their stories. Excerpts...
Ohne Kraft. "The camps [in Russia] usually consisted of collections of wooden huts [sheds], which were in a filthy condition and overcrowded . . . Elli said that 18 of the prisoners with her died in one day . . . The women were classified according to their capacity to work . . . They were put in four groups . . . Those in the fourth group, called O.K. (ohne Kraft-without strength), were unfit for anything except cleaning and other chores in the camp...