Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister Khaled el Azm, the man who negotiated the Syrian-Soviet army deal. Azm had once accused Saud of being a friend of Israel and a tool of imperialists, and this the King would not forgive. Azm is an example of the kind of confused Arab nationalist that the Russians are doing so well with these days. At a recent banquet greeting a Russian delegation, Azm praised his startled guests by proclaiming, "The Soviet Union has fought Communism in our country...
...seized the road leading to the Dardanelles straits, the goal which the Anzacs of 1915 had glimpsed so briefly from the heights of Chunuk Bair just before Kemal Ataturk launched the counterattack that wrecked the Gallipoli expedition. This time the Marines joined with the Turks to frustrate an imagined Russian drive for the same goal, a goal for which Russians, Czarist and Communist alike, have striven since Peter the Great said: "I'm not looking for land; I'm looking for water...
...Communist world, which celebrates by the numbers, fall is a festive season. But between observance of the October (1949) Communist victory in China and the 40th anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution in November, the Reds this year must pause to mark a new anniversary. The date is Oct. 23, and it is no Red-letter day. On that day last year Hungary's freedom rebellion broke...
Describing the Russian people as "wonderful," Globetrotter Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, climaxed her first trip to the Soviet Union by interviewing Communist Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev for almost three hours at his summer villa on the Black Sea near Yalta. "War is unthinkable," Khrushchev told Mrs. Roosevelt, who called the hard-drinking, explosive Soviet leader "a cordial, simple, outspoken man who got angry at certain spots and emphasized the things he believed." But when Khrushchev accused her of hating Communists, Mrs. Roosevelt quickly replied: "Oh no, I don't. I don't hate anybody. I don't believe...
...anarchy Grosz emerged as the self-styled "propagandada" of the Dada movement's antiart antics. (Today Grosz, an American citizen, lives on Long Island, N.Y., paints landscapes, nudes, and insect parables that "express the emptiness of man.") Oskar Kokoschka was shot and bayoneted through the chest on the Russian front, but survived. Seven years after the war he was jaunting about Europe, capturing in London Bridge (opposite), a bird's-eye view of what he still calls "one of the finest rivers in the world with some of the finest ships and some of the finest bridges...