Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan got a three-month diplomatic visa from the U.S. embassy in Moscow, got ready to hit Washington some time next week for a two-week visit. Presumed intention: to feel out the firmness of U.S. policy on West Berlin and to explore a possible deal for all of Germany, perhaps on the basis of Communist or neutralist disengagement schemes...
...throughout 1958 the U.S. was helped-inevitably to some, unexpectedly to others-by Communism's continuing demonstration, in the execution of Hungarian Patriots Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter, the persecution of Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak, the mass herding by Mao of millions of Chinese into communes, that Communism is by definition implacably and unchangingly sinister-hence vulnerable...
Special Silences. And what of Nasser? He had the Russian bear by the tail. Last week in Damascus, top Communist Bakdash openly defied President Nasser's ban on party agitation. "Give us back our democratic freedoms," he demanded in the newspaper Al Akhbar: ". . . the right of the popular masses and other national forces to organize themselves politically in full freedom." Communist students clashed with Syrian nationalists in Damascus and Aleppo...
...pride is involved. But Nasser supporters now sidle up to American journalists to identify government ministers in Iraq as "Communists." Western specialists regard Nasser himself as deeply but, in the long run, not irretrievably committed to the Communists. In the short run, they think his hands are tied. A Russian mission in Cairo is keeping him dangling over how much responsibility they are willing to assume in building the Aswan High Dam. Some 20 shiploads of Soviet-bloc machinery and equipment vital to his industrialization plan are due in a few weeks. He dares only hint at his peril...
...best of Belloc. To this elite, as he called them, Old Gunner Belloc (he had served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...