Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Soviet Union is ready to take negotiations seriously and is willing to make concessions as well as to receive them; that the best--in fact, the only--way to bring this situation about is to convince the Soviet Union that the postwar expansion of world Communism and Russian influence has about run its course; that the means appropriate to this objective are, in the main, economic assistance and, in a few cases, military assistance...
...executive of the Czechoslovak Press Bureau, Jiri Hronek continually wondered how the press might be improved. Last week delegates to a Czech newsmen's congress in Prague found that Hronek had worked out a program to make the Czechoslovakian press perfect-in the same sense as the Russian press is perfect. Excerpts from his statement in the Communist weekly Tvorba (Construction) as reported by the Associated Press...
...Hideki Yukawa, some of the best German and Japanese physical ideas were on hand at the Institute last week. The two were the first German and Japanese physicists to visit the U.S. as free agents since the war's end. (Several years ago the Institute invited two Russian mathematicians, but one regretfully declined and the other neglected to R.S.V.P...
...bearlike Karl Barth of Basel, Switzerland, had jolted the Amsterdam delegates with a speech on the text: Take counsel together and it shall come to naught . . . for God is with us! (Isaiah 8:10). Perhaps, he said, the much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions...
Sabotage of ERP by the USSR is still a "genuine threat," but Mr. Harris maintains that Russian opposition to the recovery program has boomeranged. The aggressive tactics of the Soviet Union have stimulated military and foreign aid expenditures in the United States. The danger of a depression in the U.S. has been postponed by these expenditures, he stated...