Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chiang, too, accepted the Russians at first. He went to Moscow in 1923 to study Russian military setup. He learned enough to organize China's own Whampoa Military Academy when he got back. That was not all he had learned. Chiang wrote...
Americans must care, not because they hanker to be loved by all the world (as some probers of the American psyche have suggested), but because the U.S. is engaged in a crucial contest with Soviet Russia for the world's faith and allegiance. Russian-born Newsman Andre Visson (now a U.S. citizen, columnist for the Washington Post and international affairs consultant for Reader's Digest) has tackled the task of exploring Europe's view of the U.S. His findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that...
...leap from a third-floor window of the Soviet consulate. Before she left she gave a little party (strawberry shortcake) for her friends at the hospital, and received the press. Her plans? Perhaps she would write a book, maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud if I could become an American citizen." As for returning to Russia: "Never, never ... I want to be in America and no place else ... I have no fears of the future...
...hard and fast decision has been made yet ... But if the Russian dictator won't budge from the Kremlin, Mr. Truman . . . may go there himself...
...Archbishop said that it is "possible for Russian Christians to live quietly in a Marxian state, accepting its economic and political system, but rejecting its philosophical ideology." He did not try to answer the old and terrible question: How quietly can a Christian live...