Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reader F. B. Sherman has inquired whether Siberian exiles under Stalin are permitted to receive food parcels and letters from families back home [TIME, Nov. 7] ... The post accepted all the food and clothing parcels that my aunt, in Russian-occupied Poland, could send me, but out of 20-odd parcels, numerous letters and communications (asI learned later) I received a single postcard during my 1½year stay at the hard labor camps [in Siberia...
Thus TIME says, "Somewhat underestimating Russian science, Bush writes: 'It is a far cry indeed from the time when the enemy has a bomb.' Even as Bush's book was going to press, President Truman announced that the Russians...
There was another, more subtle factor. Under Chairman Lilienthal's stewardship, the U.S. atomic program had successfully made the transition from military to civilian control. Production and morale were up; personnel turnover had been reduced; scientific research had taken big strides (see SCIENCE). But with Russian possession of the bomb, new readjustments were bound to come. It was probably time for congressional re-evaluation of the Atomic Energy (McMahon) Act of 1946, for redefining problems of secrecy and military security, for clarifying the checks & balances on AEC-the "advisory" scientists, the military liaison officers, the joint congressional "watchdog" committee...
Whether the West was caught unawares by the Russian proposal is still a question. At first the U.S. and British delegations passed the entire thing off as "pure propaganda," pointing to the first Russian proposal. Some groups from small nations, even outside of the Communist sphere, however, thought that such a resolution could do not harm, and might even lessen the international tension. After the Russian recognition of China's Communist government, the U. S. State Department concentrated its attacks on the impossibility of a Big Five pact under the new conditions...
...Department spokesman announced that a joint Western plan would be forth-coming providing for atomic control, disarmament, and a general peace settlement. When the plan was presented on November 14, however, it was nothing of the kind. It was, instead, only a series of clauses seemingly directed against Russian policies and actions, in the U.N. and out. Thus, when the Committee voted for the plan, it merely voted against Russian, and for the West, and little also of a positive nature. The West indeed won a prestige victory, but it did not win peace...