Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reads the-dedication of a book presented to President Eisenhower last week by Austrian Ambassador Wilfred Platzer. The book: an Austrian government study of how U.S. aid, a total of $1.4 billion since 1948, enabled Austria to recover from the ravages of World War II and postwar Russian plundering, and build out of the wreckage one of free Europe's most thriving economies...
...Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation of our position." How had the six months deadline come about? "We looked up at the ceiling, weighed everything...
...these rights that stem from the capitulation of Hitlerite Germany 14 years ago, but that's a long time ago." If the West did not voluntarily surrender these rights, he warned, Russia would sign a separate World War II peace treaty with the East German Reds. Then-by Russian logic-conquerors' rights would no longer apply in East Germany-"and West Berlin is in [East German] territory...
...creating what Leninists call a "zone of peace"; 2) the ultimate, but much more ambitious aim, of turning the Middle East into a "zone of socialism." Last summer's sudden overturn of the pro-Western regime of King Feisal and Nuri asSaid in Iraq radically changed Russian aspirations. An Iraqi Communist Party emerged intact from Nuri's jails and from underground and successfully joined with Kassem in opposing the merger of Iraq and the U.A.R. on Nasser's terms. Communism and Nasserism became locked in conflict...
Such was the opinion voiced last night by Daniel Ellsberg '52, Junior Fellow, in his fourth Lowell Lecture on Power Economics. If the United States takes part in a summit conference this summer, Ellsberg maintained, it will be in response to Russian threats "to test our ability to retaliate with less than suicidal punishments...