Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atomic Crusaders. The Assembly's formal agenda was loaded with 69 items, ranging from genocide and atomic control to the question of a U.N. postal service and the status of Russian wives of Chilean diplomats...
...field of atomic control-and the U.S. delegation intended to take full advantage of it. In the past two years the U.S. and a majority of the nations on the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission have held that international control of the atom is both necessary and feasible. When Russian opposition made it plain that agreement was not possible, the A.E.G. reported that fact and voted to suspend its own activities (TIME...
...Dmitry Manuilsky (longtime Comintern boss and now Ukrainian delegate to U.N.) "was a type of Russian Communist new to me. What struck me most was his outspoken cynicism . . . [He was] interested only in intrigue and [had] cold contempt for anyone who accepted the Comintern on the basis of its avowed aims and principles...
...graciously offered to withdraw her occupation forces from North Korea provided the U.S. did the same in the south. In many parts of the East and elsewhere, the gesture went down as a magnanimous one. It put the U.S. on the spot. Washington could not match the Russian gesture because it knew that the Russians had fostered a puppet government in their section of Korea and backed it with a Soviet-trained and armed Korean army 100,000 strong. If the U.S. Army pulled out of South Korea, the Soviet puppets in the north could easily swallow the whole country...
Perverted Capitalism. Typical of what happens to Russian dreams is the case of the Palace of the Soviets, a huge skyscraper the government started building in the early '30s. The planners chose a likely site, blew up a cathedral which was in the way-only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...