Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson served first as Assistant, then Under Secretary of State. In those six years the U.S. pulled itself out of one great crisis only to slide back into another, perhaps even greater crisis. A crashing historical failure, certainly, was the failure of the U.S. to understand and guard against Russian ambitions. A few men comprehended them and sounded warnings. But Acheson was not one of them. As did many another well-meaning man who was unable to divine the essential nature of Communism and the U.S.S.R., he believed that Communist Russia could be lived with amicably. By the time Dean...
...forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That was the best presentation I've heard from the American side in the three years we've been going." Secretary Acheson would like to have a whole task force of roving negotiators like Philip Jessup...
...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
...been split up: with a few careful exceptions, nobody can own more than six acres or rent out more than three. Land reform halted Communism's appeal to Japanese farmers. As landowners they feel that they are small, separate, independent entrepreneurs. They dislike the mere thought of Russian collectives, which many of them saw as Soviet prisoners...
...start, Pravda named nine critics who had made the mistake of criticizing the kind of calendar-art-heavily realistic pictures of Red politicians and soldiers in action-that Soviet bigwigs think uplifting. Some critics, it seemed, had dared to see a little merit in paintings done outside the Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently...