Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany, Europe's most important state, was the key point in this struggle. The U.S., Britain and France started with an advantage because they controlled Western Germany, which is far more important than the Russian Zone and Berlin...
...they did overcome Russian obstructionism and revive Western Germany, then the Communists could go to the Germans with the grave charge that the West was guilty of splitting Germany...
...Berlin airlift the West had found its best answer to this Russian charge. The Russians were obviously trying to drive the West out, and the West, at great expense, resisted the final division of Germany. This Germans understood, and that understanding hurt the German Communist Party down to its roots (see below...
Early in the week, portly, rosy-cheeked Veteran Communist Wilhelm Pieck called the signals for the Reds at a meeting of party functionaries in the Russian sector's Friedrichsstadt Palace. He confessed that the airlift was hurting the Red cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure...
Hyenas & Jackals. Like the International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, Aug. 30), the intellectuals divided on the East-West issue. Alexander Fadeev, head sheep dog of the Russian writing pack, called Western culture "disgusting filth" and denounced T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passes and André Malraux. "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens," said Fadeev, "they would write such things...