Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stream of letters covering topics ranging from American jazz to criticism of Russian and U. S. occupation policy has been reaching Harvard students. The correspondence has been growing steadily since January...
...also be exploited. In fact, Russia, in an effort to take advantage of those hopes, has already established a "People's Congress" in the Eastern Zone, which is ready to announce a new "All German State" and invite unification as soon as a Western State is set up. Russian propaganda constantly reminds the people and the convention delegates that they "don't have to give in at Bonn"--they can always join the Eastern State and become a whole nation again...
...writer from the Russian zone has been smuggling out his replies through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find...
...equally expressive about the Nuremburg Trials. "Why was in the great criminal trial one of the prosecutors a Russian, though the Russians make more criminal actions than Germans have ever made, and all with the knowledge of America. I'm for the sentencing of war criminals, but not only from Germany. I think there could be found many of such kind in very country...
...four years ago this month. In the time since, United States-Soviet relations have deteriorated consistently; the signing of the Atlantic Pact a fortnight ago formalized the split between the two countries. But much more serious than this diplomatic hardening of the arteries has been the growth of anti-Russian feeling in this country. A significant part of the American press has parlayed domestic news into direct propaganda with viciousness and determination...