Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts this week to cut the Madrid-Valencia highway, Rightist Italian tanks grappled with Leftist Russian tanks along a 15-mile front in what Madrid radio called "the biggest tank battle since the World War." Madrid complained that the Rightist air force has been "doubled" by recent arrivals of Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee...
...prestige of the Russian Communist Party undoubtedly has suffered a severe blow in the eyes of the people of its own home country...
...Martin Niemöller, onetime submarine commander, bobbed up in his pulpit after a police grilling to say of Nazi Church Minister Hans Kerrl: "He regards faith in Jesus Christ as an absurd side issue!" With the Fatherland careening into the most ominous crisis of faith since the Russian Revolution, Adolf Hitler's delirious Jew-baiting friend Julius Streicher roared at Nürnberg: "Every Catholic priest convicted of immorality must be beheaded! Since I no longer belong to the Church I am much nearer...
...their Moscow offices crack foreign correspondents discovered that much of the week's most important news was being printed only in local Russian newsorgans in the regions where it occurred, sometimes even there in obscurest sheets. Thus at Minsk, capital of the White Russian* Soviet Socialist Republic, the important local newsorgan is the Star, but only in a Minsk paper called the Worker could one read last week the BIG STORY of how a three-day session of the White Russian Communist Party, devoted to frenzied charges and countercharges, had been capped by the sudden death of the White...
When Russia established a base at the North Pole last month (TIME, May 31 & June 14), many were skeptical about the Soviet's announced intention of inaugurating a Moscow-San Francisco airline. Last week skeptics were confounded when a Russian plane nonchalantly flew non-stop from Moscow to the U. S. via the North Pole...