Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast ends with a rendition of Jingle Bells-in Russian...
Taking a tip from Lenin's 1921 Russian shift to the New Economic Policy, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was striving to ease the strain of revolution by talking of moderation. He hoped to allay the fears of capitalists and technicians, both Chinese and foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that...
Matter of Expediency. The official position of the Davisites is that Russian aggression and U.S. counter-aggression (both of which are called "imperialism") are equally blameworthy and dangerous to Europe. In private, however, Davis does not share this view. When I asked if he really thought that the worst the U.S. could do to Europe was comparable to the worst Russia could do, he answered: "Of course not." When I asked why this was not said publicly, one of his advisers quickly said it was "a matter of expediency." That is, if Davis publicly criticized Russia more than...
...spite of Chiang's tough talk, it looked last week as if the Nanking government might be willing to make a deal. Through Nanking's chanceries swept a rumor that the U.S. and Russian embassies would be asked to step in as joint mediators. Aside from the building of defense works along the Yangtze, military operations were at a standstill...
...Military Government had helped by supplying space, books, building materials and airlift coal-just about everything, in short, but the professors. Professors and instructors, however, were plentiful. They came, 134 so far, from all over Germany. Some of them are refugees from the Russian zone itself; twenty-three left well-paying jobs at the old University of Berlin. Among them is white-bearded, 86-year-old Historian Friedrich Meinecke, who became the new rector...