Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imprisonment of Veteran Davis Knight in Mississippi for intermarriage, following a revengeful relative's disclosure that Knight's great-grandmother was a Negro [TIME, Dec. 27], is a most flagrant violation of democratic spirit. It is a beautiful story for Russian distribution in Europe and Asia...
...Gross Slander." Most Washington correspondents believed that Dean Acheson had been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
...antagonists, while not relaxing their holds, had paused for breath. Last week the silence was broken by a brass-lunged blast from Colonel Frank L. Howley, hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector. On New Year's Day, two or three U.S. officials telephoned their Russian opposite numbers to wish them a prosperous New Year. When he heard of this incident last week, Howley's quick-triggered temper exploded...
...Prosperous New Year-like hell! Instructions in the Russian army manual are not to mix with us except when essential to fulfill their missions. These days we aren't trying to help the Russians fulfill their missions." Howley promptly ordered all fraternizing with Russians in Berlin to stop, forthwith. Cried he: "None of my men are going to play footsie-wootsie with the Russians...
...week's end, the flu (and the hangovers) were still far from under control. Sneezing, snorting Frenchmen speculated about where the flu came from. "I think," said one housewife, "it is an experiment in Russian bacteriological warfare." Others recalled that the post-World War I flu, which supposedly started in Spain, had been known accordingly as the Spanish flu. This one, Frenchmen were sure, had crossed over from Italy. They promptly called it la grippe Italienne. With an acerbity that boded ill for European unity, Italians in Paris retorted by calling it influenza Francese...