Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While teaching English to Leon Trotsky, she fell madly in love with him. He was bored. Later, at 46, she married a colorless Soviet official. In 1930 she founded the first English-language newspaper in the Soviet Union, the Moscow News. But she could not get along with her Russian associates. One of the squabbles she got into was taken to Stalin himself for judgment. Said she: "His eyes were kind yet grave, giving rest and assurance...
...Larger Truth. From time to time she made trips to the Russian collectives, was appalled by the horrors which the kulaks suffered in the name of economic necessity. American friends in Moscow saw her come home from these trips and break down weeping. But for all her disappointments in Communism, she clung to it. Of the collectives which had horrified her, she actually wrote: "One hundred million of the world's most backward peasants almost overnight [swung] into ultra-modern farming . . . Their increased income [was] translatable into silk dresses, perfumes, musical instruments...
Slim Blue Book. Next day the A.F.L., a non-governmental consultant to U.N., used a different method to get the facts across. It submitted a slim, blue-covered booklet containing the testimony of twelve men & women who had survived Russian slave labor camps. To read and interpret their story, the A.F.L. picked a veteran German socialist, tiny Toni Sender, whose renowned taunts of Nazi bigwigs had earned her the epithet "Mrs. Big Mouth." Among the case histories she had gathered...
Toni Sender's grim bill of particulars stung the Russians hard. Cried Delegate Tsarapkin: "Filthy libel ... a dirty pamphlet supplied the State Department by a lackey union." When Miss Sender suggested that, to determine who was a liar, a survey be made of forced labor in all the United Nations, the Russian snapped: "Traveling in the Soviet Union is forbidden to haters of the U.S.S.R...
...situated and sophisticated" young man whose answer she had selected, she proved to be neither handsome nor vivacious nor blonde. She was thin, tired, brunette and nervous. But the young man was nervous too. Neither well-situated nor particularly sophisticated, he had just returned from five years in a Russian P.W. camp, had landed a lowly clerical...